[Nix-dev] Locale issues with Nix shell (and GHC) on OSX

Hi, When compiling within a *pure* nix shell with GHC, I get the following warning: Warning: unable to set locale to UTF-8 encoding; GHC may fail with 'invalid character' and indeed depending on the haskell packages I use, I may get build errors due to this. (I build with stack, not directly with

Re: [Nix-dev] Locale issues with Nix shell (and GHC) on OSX

Sorry, I don't know how to help you further. I also don't know why glibcLocales should be linux-only. On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 at 12:30 Yves Parès wrote: > I actually need Unicode, this is why setting LANG=C is a problem. > > 2015-11-19 13:27 GMT+01:00 zimbatm

Re: [Nix-dev] Locale issues with Nix shell (and GHC) on OSX

On 11/19/2015 09:35 PM, zimbatm wrote: > I also don't know why glibcLocales should be linux-only. I think glibcLocales only makes sense if you use glibc, which is not the case on darwin. (The glibcLocales format even changes between some versions incompatibly.) Darwin libc surely has its own way

Re: [Nix-dev] Locale issues with Nix shell (and GHC) on OSX

Did you check your environment variables ? I suppose that LANG and friends are set to en_US.UTF-8. You could try to add the locales packages to your shell.nix or change LANG, LC_ALL to "C". If you don't need Unicode that might be easier. On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:44 Yves Parès

Re: [Nix-dev] Locale issues with Nix shell (and GHC) on OSX

I actually need Unicode, this is why setting LANG=C is a problem. 2015-11-19 13:27 GMT+01:00 zimbatm : > Did you check your environment variables ? I suppose that LANG and friends > are set to en_US.UTF-8. You could try to add the locales packages to your > shell.nix or