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locale-gen(8)							 locale-gen(8)

NAME
       locale-gen - generate locales on the fly

DESCRIPTION
       The locale-gen utility is used to manage locales on your system.	 Often
       times it merely generates a user configurable list of locales,  but  it
       can be used to generate a few locales on the fly as needed.

       Normally	 all  locales would be generated at build time, but this leads
       to waste of disk and time as many users really just want a  handful  on
       their system.

OPTIONS
       -a, --ask
	      Ask before generating each locale

       -A, --all
	      Generate all possible locales

       -c, --config <config>
	      Use specified config file rather than default /etc/locale.gen

       -d, --destdir <dir>
	      Look  for	 locale definitions and store generated locale data in
	      the specified directory

       -G, --generate <locale>
	      Only generate the specified locale (implies --keep --update)

       -h, --help
	      Show the help output (imagine that)

       -j, --jobs <num>
	      Generate the specified number of locales in parallel

       -k, --keep
	      Keep all existing locales even if they are  not  in  the	config
	      file

       -l, --list
	      List all the locales that we think should exist according to the
	      config

       -q, --quiet
	      Only spit out errors

       -u, --update
	      Only generate locales that do not already exist (normally exist‐
	      ing locales are regenerated)

       -V, --version
	      Report the program version

       --     To  pass	custom	options directly to the localedef utility, end
	      the locale-gen option list with --  and  then  everything	 after
	      that  will  be  passed on through unmolested (the options -c are
	      passed by default)

AUTHORS
       Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

REPORTING BUGS
       Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/

FILES
       /etc/locale.gen - locale list

SEE ALSO
       locale(1), localedef(1), locale(5), locale.gen(5), locale(7)

Gentoo				   Aug 2007			 locale-gen(8)

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