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<H1>LOCALE-GEN</H1>
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<H2>NAME </H2>
locale-gen --- generates localisation files from templates
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<H2>SYNOPSIS </H2>
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<B>locale-gen</B>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION </H2>
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This manual page documents briefly the
<B>locale-gen</B> command.
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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.
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<B>locale-gen</B> is a program that reads the file
<B>/etc/locale.gen</B> and invokes
<B>localedef</B> for the chosen localisation profiles.
Run <B>locale-gen</B> after you have modified the <B>/etc/locale.gen</B> file.
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<H2>FILES </H2>
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<B>/etc/locale.gen</B>
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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.
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<B>/var/lib/locales/supported.d/</B>
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A directory containing locale.gen snippets provided by language-pack
packages. Do not edit these manually, they will be overwritten on
package upgrades.
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<H2>SEE ALSO </H2>
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+localedef">localedef</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+locale">locale</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?5+locale.gen">locale.gen</A>(5).
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<H2>AUTHOR </H2>
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This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch &lt;<A HREF="mailto:blade@debian.org">blade@debian.org</A>&gt; for
the <B>Debian GNU/Linux</B> system (but may be used by others). Permission is
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