[Nix-dev] awesome locale issues

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:16:05PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 06:54 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > One step, further: awesome is running with popen (thx peter!) and the
> > battery and clock obvious widgets are working.
> > 
> > However, instead of displaying the volume_alsa and wlan widget,
> > .xsession-errors is filling with:
> > 
> > awesome: draw_iso2utf8:81: text conversion failed: Invalid or incomplete
> > multibyte or wide character
> 
> This is probably because the Glibc locales are in a separate package.  Solution:
> 
> $ nix-env -i glibc-locales
> 
> and set the environment variable LOCALE_ARCHIVE to
> ~/.nix-profile/lib/locale/locale-archive.

got side-tracked back then, for the record: this fixed it.

thx!

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