locale.gen(5) File Formats Manual locale.gen(5)
NAME
locale.gen - Configuration file for locale-gen
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/locale.gen lists the locales that are to be generated by
the locale-gen command.
Each line is of the form:
<locale> <charset>
where <locale> is one of the locales given in /usr/share/i18n/locales
and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps
The locale-gen command will generate all the locales, placing them in
/usr/lib/locale.
SEE ALSO
locale-gen(8), localedef(1), locale(1)
AUTHOR
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>
Debian GNU/Linux July 2005 locale.gen(5)
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