locale.gen
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: July 2005
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NAME
locale.gen - Configuration file for locale-gen
DESCRIPTION
The file
/etc/locale.gen lists the locales that are to be generated
by the
locale-gen command.
Each line is of the form:
<locale> <charset>
where <locale> is one of the locales given in
/usr/share/i18n/locales
and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps
The
locale-gen
command will generate all the locales, placing them in
/usr/lib/locale.
SEE ALSO
locale-gen(8),
localedef(1),
locale(1)
AUTHOR
Alastair McKinstry <
mckinstry@computer.org>