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.
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.