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LOCALE-GEN(8)							 LOCALE-GEN(8)

NAME
       locale-gen - compile a list of locale definition files

SYNOPSIS
       locale-gen [options] [locale] [language] ...

DESCRIPTION
       Compiled	 locale	 files	take  about 50MB of disk space, and most users
       only need few locales.  In order to save disk  space,  compiled	locale
       files  are not distributed in the locales package, but selected locales
       are automatically generated when this package is installed  by  running
       the locale-gen program.

       If  a  list of languages and/or locales is specified as arguments, then
       locale-gen only generates these particular locales  and	adds  the  new
       ones to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local.  Otherwise it generates all
       supported locales.

       Locale data files can be	 stored	 either	 in  a	single	archive	 file,
       /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive,	or  in	a  deep	 tree where individual
       files are stored under /usr/lib/locale/<locale_name>/LC_*.  But	unlike
       the  locales  package, compiled locale definitions are not removed when
       running locale-gen, and locales	are  compiled  again  only  if	locale
       source files have changed.

OPTIONS
       These options override settings found in /etc/belocs/locale-gen.conf.

       --help Display an help message and exit.

       --purge
	      Remove all existing locales before processing.

       --no-purge
	      Do not remove existing locales before processing.

       --archive
	      When  this option is set, locale data are stored in a single ar‐
	      chive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.

       --no-archive
	      When  this  option  is  set,   locale   data   are   stored   in
	      /usr/lib/locale/<locale_name>/LC_* files.	 This is the default.

       --aliases=FILE
	      Locale aliases are read from FILE.

FILES
       /var/lib/locales/supported.d/*
	      List  all	 locales  to  generate.	  File	format	is  similar to
	      /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED.

       /etc/belocs/locale-gen.conf
	      Customize how compiled locale files are stored onto disk.

       /usr/lib/locale/<locale_name>/LC_*
	      Compiled locale data.

       /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
	      Generated archive containing compiled locale data, if  --archive
	      flag is set.

       /var/lib/belocs
	      Directory used to keep track of changes in locale source files.

SEE ALSO
       localedef(1), locale(1), locale-gen.conf(5).

AUTHOR
       The  locale-gen program was originally written by Debian GNU libc main‐
       tainers, and has been improved by  Denis	 Barbier  <barbier@debian.org>
       for  the belocs-locales-bin package.  This manual page has been rewrit‐
       ten from scratch to document the current behavior.

Debian GNU/Linux		  March 2005			 LOCALE-GEN(8)
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