debian man page for locale-gen

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

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.

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