/etc/locale.gen
Whitespace-separated newline-delimited locale charset list of locales to build with # start-of-line comments.
locale-gen8
Generate localisation files from templates
Usage
locale-gen [--keep-existing]
Overview
As compiled locales are large, only templates are distributed in the default locales package, and only the desired locales are compiled on the target system.
After selecting the locales into /etc/locale.gen (via dpkg package configuration, for example), locale-gen is run to compile them via localedef(1).
Options
-
--keep-existing -
Do not remove /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, only compiling new locales.
Files
Releases
12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.
--keep-existing since Debian 12 (Bookworm).
--aliases until Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--archive until Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--help until Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--no-archive until Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--purge until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).