bug#26948: 'guix publish' file name decoding is locale-dependent

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> ‘guix publish’ uses the latter, so ‘guix publish’ is sensitive to locale
>> settings, which is pretty bad.
>>
>> Guile currently does not allow us to specify whether/how file names
>> should be decoded, but possible solutions have been discussed for 2.2.
>>
>> In the meantime, solutions are:
>>
>>   1. To run ‘guix publish’ in a UTF-8 locale, which apparently was not
>>      the case.
>
> Commit 412701b0e5e073e6767eed162c14698db99df69c works around the problem
> on GuixSD by running under a UTF-8 locale.

Confirmed with you on #guix; that's good enough for now.

Closing,

Thank you!

Maxim