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.
     /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

     locale(1), localedef(1), locale.gen(5)

     /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.