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 com‐
       pile 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  com‐
                        ments.
       /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)