[Nix-dev] Re: Compiling Nix code

[Michael Raskin]

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On 02/25/2010 05:46 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Unicode-capable? Please make Unicode-capable version of Guile the
>> default in Nixpkgs. (string-length "я") -> 2.
> 
> It works for me:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> scheme@(guile-user)> (setlocale LC_ALL "")
> $3 = "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8;LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8"
> scheme@(guile-user)> (string-length "я")
> $4 = 1
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Please direct bug reports to ‘bug-guile at gnu.org’ and gratuitous bashing
> to /dev/null.

So I have to explicitly set locale inside Guile for it to take the
locale from environment? OK, in this case it is not exactly bug. I did a
completely out-of-the-box experiment.

Thanks for the hint, I'll add that line to .guile just in case.
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