locale.gen(5) (July 2005) 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 command. 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 charac- ter sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps The locale-gen command will generate all the locales, plac- ing them in /usr/lib/locale. SEE ALSO locale-gen(8), localedef(1), locale(1) AUTHOR Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> Page 1 Debian GNU/Linux (printed 5/26/22)