LOCALE-GEN(8)LOCALE-GEN(8)NAMElocale-gen — generates localisation files from templates
SYNOPSISlocale-genDESCRIPTION
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 localisa‐
tion 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 spe‐
cial 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 defini‐
tion that is to be built.
SEE ALSOlocaledef(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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