LOCALE-GEN(8)

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Hey bestie! 🎀 Here's the LOCALE-GEN(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, all tea, no filler. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

locale-gen — generate localisation files from templates 🌸

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

locale-gen [--keep-existing]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so compiled locales are huge 😭 which is why only the templates get shipped in the default locales package, and only the locales you actually want get compiled on your own machine. lowkey genius.

after you pick your locales in /etc/locale.gen (through dpkg package configuration, for example), you run locale-gen to compile them with localedef(1). it's giving tidy, no cap. 🫶

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --keep-existing — don't delete /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive. it only compiles the brand new locales and leaves the rest alone. ✨

📁 FILES 📁

  • /etc/locale.gen — the main list 💜 It's a whitespace-separated, newline-delimited list of locale charset pairs that locale-gen builds. Lines starting with # are comments, so you can leave yourself notes.
  • /var/lib/locales/supported.d — a directory full of locale.gen snippets that language-pack packages drop in 🌈 Please don't hand-edit these, bestie, they get overwritten on package upgrades. 💀

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

locale(1), localedef(1), locale.gen(5) 🍓

  • /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (or /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED) — the list of every supported locale on the current system. main character energy 👑
  • The locales-all package — has every supported locale already compiled, so you don't have to do it yourself. iconic. 🔥

Sign-off: this page is from Debian, dated May 5, 2022, and it's the LOCALE-GEN(8) manual. periodt! 💖🦋✨

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