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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/python.scm6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 6fe524e83a..7dc7435b20 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -2259,7 +2259,11 @@ backend = GTK3Agg~%")))))
(info (string-append data "/info"))
(html (string-append doc "/html")))
(with-directory-excursion "doc"
- ;; Without setting this variable we get an encoding error.
+ ;; Install and set UTF-8 locale to avoid an encoding error.
+ (setenv "LOCPATH" (getcwd))
+ (system* "localedef" "--no-archive"
+ "--prefix" (getcwd) "-i" "en_US"
+ "-f" "UTF-8" "./en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
;; Produce pdf in 'A4' format.
(substitute* (find-files "." "conf\\.py")