Sucklesss packages not working due to wrong locale setting

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when i run st, it says

XOpenIM failed. Could not open input device.

I have this in my configuration.nix:

i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = “en_IN”;
LC_IDENTIFICATION = “en_IN”;
LC_MEASUREMENT = “en_IN”;
LC_MONETARY = “en_IN”;
LC_NAME = “en_IN”;
LC_NUMERIC = “en_IN”;
LC_PAPER = “en_IN”;
LC_TELEPHONE = “en_IN”;
LC_TIME = “en_IN”;
LC_ALL = “en_IN”;
};

If I set LC_ALL to en_IN.utf8 by export LC_ALL="en_IN.uf8" , it runs fine for that bash session.
Is there a way to set this in nix config?
Also i cannot set this value in configuration.nix because it gives Error: Unsupported locale detected.

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You might be looking for libc locale: NixOS Search

3

Ok, but how do i specify it which locale to use?
what should i write in nix config?
this doesnt work:

i18n.glibcLocales = lib.hiPrio (pkgs.buildPackages.glibcLocales.override {
allLocales = lib.any (x: x == “all”) config.i18n.supportedLocales;
locales = config.i18n.supportedLocales;
});

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Solved it by adding this to my configuration.nix:

i18n.extraLocaleSettings.LC_CTYPE = “en_US.utf8”

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