system: Selected locale is automatically built.

Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/22572>.
Reported by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>.

* gnu/system/locale.scm (%not-dot): New variable.
(denormalize-codeset, locale-name->definition): New procedures.
* gnu/system.scm (locale-name->definition*): New procedure.
(operating-system-locale-directory): Instead of raising an error, add
the missing locale.
* doc/guix.texi (Locales): Adjust accordingly.
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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
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locale-definition-source
locale-definition-charset
locale-name->definition
locale-directory
%default-locale-libcs
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(charset locale-definition-charset ;string--e.g., "UTF-8"
(default "UTF-8")))
(define %not-dot
(char-set-complement (char-set #\.)))
(define (denormalize-codeset codeset)
"Attempt to guess the \"real\" name of CODESET, a normalized codeset as
defined in (info \"(libc) Using gettextized software\")."
(cond ((string=? codeset "utf8")
"UTF-8")
((string-prefix? "iso8859" codeset)
(string-append "ISO-8859-" (string-drop codeset 7)))
((string=? codeset "eucjp")
"EUC-JP")
(else ;cross fingers, hope for the best
codeset)))
(define (locale-name->definition name)
"Return a <locale-definition> corresponding to NAME, guessing the charset,
or #f on failure."
(match (string-tokenize name %not-dot)
((source charset)
;; XXX: NAME is supposed to use the "normalized codeset", such as "utf8",
;; whereas the actual name used is different. Add a special case to make
;; the right guess for UTF-8.
(locale-definition (name name)
(source source)
(charset (denormalize-codeset charset))))
(_
#f)))
(define* (localedef-command locale
#:key (libc (canonical-package glibc)))
"Return a gexp that runs 'localedef' from LIBC to build LOCALE."