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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-08-29 23:37:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-08-29 23:56:47 +0200 |
| commit | b26365186045530eadb5027087a37ca1a440aee9 (patch) | |
| tree | 88307c9023543618d3caff808fee3969fce574f5 /gnu/system | |
| parent | 3d20ebd6cb09c328c06ea197489aa84802bed5a8 (diff) | |
doc: Mention the "normalized codeset" used in locale names.
* doc/guix.texi (Locales): Introduce "codeset".
<%default-locale-definitions>: Mention the "normalized codeset", with
an xref to libc's manual.
* gnu/system/locale.scm (%default-locale-definitions)[utf8-locale]:
Mention the "normalized codeset" in a comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/locale.scm | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/locale.scm b/gnu/system/locale.scm index be9abcb81d..393dd42354 100644 --- a/gnu/system/locale.scm +++ b/gnu/system/locale.scm @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ (letrec-syntax ((utf8-locale (syntax-rules () ((_ name*) (locale-definition + ;; Note: We choose "utf8", which is the + ;; "normalized codeset". (name (string-append name* ".utf8")) (source name*) (charset "UTF-8"))))) |