Manual: locale-gen

LOCALE-GEN(8)					   System Manager's Manual				       LOCALE-GEN(8)

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.

Debian							 May 5, 2022					       LOCALE-GEN(8)