From b26365186045530eadb5027087a37ca1a440aee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:37:33 +0200
Subject: 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.
---
 gnu/system/locale.scm | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'gnu')

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")))))
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