03/09: ui: Attempt to fall back to "en_US.utf8" rather than "C".

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civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit fe4e770fc1a1a0ddc5025ac61d3d960621127fd8
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Sep 2 15:59:09 2020 +0200

    ui: Attempt to fall back to "en_US.utf8" rather than "C".
    
    * guix/ui.scm (install-locale): Add call to 'setlocale' in 'catch' handler.
---
 guix/ui.scm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index efc3f39..9513f42 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -494,7 +494,11 @@ guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
 export GUIX_LOCPATH=\"$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale\"
 @end example
 
-See the \"Application Setup\" section in the manual, for more info.\n")))))
+See the \"Application Setup\" section in the manual, for more info.\n"))
+      ;; We're now running in the "C" locale.  Try to install a UTF-8 locale
+      ;; instead.  This one is guaranteed to be available in 'guix' from 'guix
+      ;; pull'.
+      (false-if-exception (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")))))
 
 (define (initialize-guix)
   "Perform the usual initialization for stand-alone Guix commands."