makes the C.UTF-8 locale from Debian system available within GUIX

c-utf8-locale.scm

;; guix package -f c-utf8-locale.scm

(define-module (c-utf8-locale)
  #:use-module (gnu packages base)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix gexp)
  #:use-module (guix utils)
  #:use-module (guix build-system copy))

(define-public c-utf8-locale
 (package
  (name "c-utf8-locale")
  (version (package-version glibc))
  (source (local-file "/usr/lib/locale/C.UTF-8" #:recursive? #t))
  (build-system copy-build-system)
  (arguments `(#:install-plan '(("." ,(string-append "lib/locale/" (version-major+minor version) "/C.UTF-8")))))
  (synopsis "Copy Debian C.UTF-8 locale")
  (description "A minimal locale supporting the UTF-8 character set")
  (home-page (package-home-page glibc))
  (license (package-license glibc))))

c-utf8-locale