bug#39970: guix commands broken on Azerbaijani 'az_AZ' and Turkish 'tr_TR' locales

[Ludovic Courtès]

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:20:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > `LC_ALL=tr_TR.utf8 make check` is still very unhappy though.
>> > There are many failures.  I will continue to investigate later today.
>> 
>> OK.
>
> The tests fail to many other uses of [a-z] in regexps.  I will look;
> for e.g. guix/import/cran.scm
>
> (if (string-match "^[A-Za-z][^ :]+:( |\n|$)" line)
>     …)
>
> it would be easier and clearer to just list [a-z] explicitly:

Yes, agreed.

It would be nice if ‘string-match’ & co. could take an optional locale
object (info "(guile) i18n Introduction") but that’s not the case
currently.

Thanks,
Ludo’.