Thank you for your reply, Bengt. I received this email outside of the mailing list. So I have forwarded it. Below inline I comment.
On Sun, September 22, 2019 3:15 pm, Bengt Richter wrote: > On +2019-09-22 14:44:57 +0000, quil...@riseup.net wrote: >> Hello Guix. >> >> I have had a problem on Guix System for about a month since a >> reconfigure >> and have tried several 'sudo guix system reconfigure config.scm'. But >> still cannot solve it. I have tried to include all symptoms in order to >> make this report useful. >> >> My user login for Gnome appears as 'Quiliro Ord???ez' instead of Quiliro >> Ordóñez. >> > > [...] > >> I cannot type characters such as ĝ on C-M-F1 as well as on Xfce-terminal >> and Emacs in Gnome. But I can type characters such as ó and ñ. I don't >> have that problem on Icecat. >> >> My current locale is es_EC.UTF-8: >> quiliro@GSD3 ~$ locale >> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory >> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or >> directory >> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > > I believe locale should not complain as in the above 3 lines. > When it stops complaining, I suspect many of the other complaints will > disappear. > > Unfortuantely, I did not make good notes when my locale command produced > the same errors, > so take my advice with a grain of salt ;-) > > You might want to try running locale-gen as root -- i.e. sudo locale-gen > See man locale-gen It is not available. > But first, what LANG=... does sudo locale produce for you? > I would guess it needs to be LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 for you. > > If it doesn't show that LANG=, probably locale-gen will need to be told. > Perhaps something like this would work to invoke locale-gen: > > sudo bash > LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 locale-gen > # ... locale-gen take a little while to compile stuff ... > # exit with Ctl-d back to your user cli quiliro@GSD3 ~/Descargas/elisp$ sudo bash root@GSD3 /home/quiliro/Descargas/elisp# locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_TIME="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_NAME="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_EC.UTF-8" LC_ALL= root@GSD3 /home/quiliro/Descargas/elisp# LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 locale-gen bash: locale-gen: command not found root@GSD3 /home/quiliro/Descargas/elisp# exit quiliro@GSD3 ~/Descargas/elisp$ sudo locale-gen sudo: locale-gen: command not found >> LANG=es_EC.UTF-8 >> LC_CTYPE="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_NUMERIC="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_TIME="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_COLLATE="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_MONETARY="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_MESSAGES="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_PAPER="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_NAME="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_ADDRESS="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_TELEPHONE="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_MEASUREMENT="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_EC.UTF-8" >> LC_ALL= >> quiliro@GSD3 ~$ >> > > Good luck :) > > Regards, > Bengt Richter Thank you for your help. Quiliro
