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diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index 5b686a122f..b72a6ddc8e 100644
--- a/guix/packages.scm
+++ b/guix/packages.scm
@@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ corresponds to the arguments expected by `set-path-environment-variable'."
("bzip2" ,(ref '(gnu packages compression) 'bzip2))
("gzip" ,(ref '(gnu packages compression) 'gzip))
("lzip" ,(ref '(gnu packages compression) 'lzip))
- ("patch" ,(ref '(gnu packages base) 'patch)))))
+ ("patch" ,(ref '(gnu packages base) 'patch))
+ ("locales" ,(ref '(gnu packages base) 'glibc-utf8-locales)))))
(define (default-guile)
"Return the default Guile package used to run the build code of
@@ -411,7 +412,8 @@ IMPORTED-MODULES specify modules to use/import for use by SNIPPET."
(srfi srfi-1)
(guix build utils))
- (let ((out (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+ (let ((locales (assoc-ref %build-inputs "locales"))
+ (out (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
(xz (assoc-ref %build-inputs "xz"))
(decomp (assoc-ref %build-inputs ,decompression-type))
(source (assoc-ref %build-inputs "source"))
@@ -433,6 +435,12 @@ IMPORTED-MODULES specify modules to use/import for use by SNIPPET."
(lambda (name)
(not (member name '("." "..")))))))
+ (when locales
+ ;; First of all, install a UTF-8 locale so that UTF-8 file names
+ ;; are correctly interpreted. During bootstrap, LOCALES is #f.
+ (setenv "LOCPATH" (string-append locales "/lib/locale"))
+ (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.UTF-8"))
+
(setenv "PATH" (string-append xz "/bin" ":"
decomp "/bin"))