fix setlocale error when using home-manager on arch

* fixes error: bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8) * reference: NixOS/nixpkgs#38991
akshaykarle · Dec 30, 2022 · e2127a8 · e2127a8
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diff --git a/dotfiles/config.fish.symlink b/dotfiles/config.fish.symlink
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # Set lang
 set -xU LANG en_US.UTF-8
 set -xU LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
+# need to set LOCALE_ARCHIVE for nix to fix error:
+# bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
+# reference- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/38991
+set -xU LOCALE_ARCHIVE_2_11 "$(nix-build --no-out-link "<nixpkgs>" -A glibcLocales)/lib/locale/locale-archive"
+set -xU LOCALE_ARCHIVE_2_27 "$(nix-build --no-out-link "<nixpkgs>" -A glibcLocales)/lib/locale/locale-archive"
+set -xU LOCALE_ARCHIVE "/usr/bin/locale"
 
 # Remove greeting
 set fish_greeting

diff --git a/modules/home-manager/default.nix b/modules/home-manager/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ in {
 
     packages = with pkgs; [
       # standard toolset
+      glibcLocales
       coreutils-full
       curl
       gawk