NAME

       locale-gen — generates localisation files from templates

SYNOPSIS

       locale-gen

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 <blade@debian.org> 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.

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