LOCALE-GEN
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NAME
locale-gen
- generate localisation files from templates
SYNOPSIS
locale-gen
[--keep-existing
]
DESCRIPTION
As compiled locales are large, only templates are distributed in the default
locales
package, and only the desired locales are compiled on the target system.
After selecting the locales into
/etc/locale.gen
(via dpkg package configuration, for example
)
locale-gen
is run to compile them via
localedef(1).
OPTIONS
- --keep-existing
-
Do not remove
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
only compiling new locales.
FILES
- /etc/locale.gen
-
Whitespace-separated newline-delimited
locale charset
list of locales to build with
#
start-of-line comments.
SEE ALSO
locale(1),
localedef(1),
locale.gen5
/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
(/usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
)
--- list of all supported locales on the current system.
The
locales-all
package, which contains all supported locales in compiled form.
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