LOCALE-GEN(N)                                       LOCALE-GEN(N)



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 lan-
       guage. 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 mod-
       ified 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.alias (5), 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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