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While setting up a minimal tiling window manager stack on NixOS — dwm and dmenu — I ran into a locale bug. dmenu simply refuses to work citing unsupported locale because the LANG environment variable in my NixOS system ends up as en_IN instead of en_IN.UTF-8, It only works if I manually correct the environment using things like LANG=en_IN.UTF-8. Display managers and session startup do not reliably inherit such a fix. None of my attempts to modify configuration.nix to correct this bore any fruit. I believe the root issue is described at Github issue #256688 on NixOS/nixpkgs

After spending much of my time fighting locale propagation rather than configuring keybindings or layouts, I gave up. Instead of dwm, and dmenu, I settled for Forge tiling extension in GNOME. It works satisfactorily.