locale.gen(5)

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version 2.44 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so locale.gen is the config file for locale-gen, and it's giving settings file energy 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie, /etc/locale.gen is basically the guest list 📝 It tells the locale-gen command exactly which locales to make ✨

every line on that list follows the same vibe:

<locale> <charset>
  • locale is one of the locales listed in /usr/share/i18n/locales 🌍
  • charset is one of the character sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps 🔤

so pick your locale and your charset from those folders, and you're giving 🎀

once you've got your list, locale-gen makes all of them and drops the results into /usr/lib/locale 🦋 it's literally that easy, no cap 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

you'll want to peek at these too, they're iconic 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this one was written by Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> 🫶

locale.gen(5) · File Formats Manual 📖

okay bestie, that's the whole thing 🌈 this page came from the Debian GNU/Linux manual set, dated July 2005, and it's still giving 🧚💅

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