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locale-gen \(em generates localisation files from templates
Description
This manual page documents briefly the
locale-gen command.
By default, the locale package which provides the base support for
localisation of libc-based programs does not contain usable localisation
files for every supported language. This limitation has became necessary
because of the substantial size of such files and the large number of
languages supported by libc. As a result, Debian uses a special
mechanism where we prepare the actual localisation files on the target
host and distribute only the templates for them.
locale-gen is a program that reads the file
/etc/locale.gen and invokes
localedef for the chosen localisation profiles.
Run locale-gen after you have modified the /etc/locale.gen file.
Files
/etc/locale.gen
The main configuration file, which has a simple format: every
line that is not empty and does not begin with a # is treated as a
locale definition that is to be built.
/var/lib/locales/supported.d/
A directory containing locale.gen snippets provided by language-pack
packages. Do not edit these manually, they will be overwritten on
package upgrades.
See Also
localedef(1), locale(1), locale.gen(5).
Author
This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch <[email protected]> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover
Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.