locale.gen(5)                          File Formats Manual                          locale.gen(5)



NAME
       locale.gen - Configuration file for locale-gen

DESCRIPTION
       The file /etc/locale.gen lists the locales that are to be generated by the locale-gen com‐
       mand.

       Each line is of the form:

       <locale> <charset>

       where <locale> is one of the locales given in /usr/share/i18n/locales and <charset> is one
       of the character sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps

       The locale-gen command will generate all the locales, placing them in /usr/lib/locale.


SEE ALSO
       locale-gen(8), localedef(1), locale(1)

AUTHOR
       Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry AT computer.org>



Debian GNU/Linux                            July 2005                               locale.gen(5)