On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:58 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
> >From the frontpage:
> 
> Starting from glibc 2.3.6-1, locales will no longer be included as a
> pre-generated locale archive. This means that on a default glibc
> installation, the only locale available is the "C" locale.
> Instead of shipping a 50MB locale archive, glibc switches to locale-gen,
> a script that generates locales found in /etc/locale.def.
> 
> After upgrading to glibc 2.3.6-1, users should enter wanted locales
> in /etc/locale.def and run the locale-gen script afterwards.
> 
> By default /etc/locale.def is an empty file with commented
> documentation. Once edited, the file won't get touched again and
> locale-gen runs on every glibc upgrade, installing all the locales
> specified in /etc/locale.def.

To make things clear: make sure you specify languages the way you use
them in /etc/locale.conf. For example, if you use de_DE.UTF as locale,
add this to locale.gen:

de_DE.UTF8 UTF8

This will generate locale data for de_DE.UTF8, taking de_DE as locale,
UTF8 as charset and de_DE.UTF8 as name in the locale archive.


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