Bug#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:08:10AM +0200, sferriol wrote:
[...]
> do a dpkg-reconfigure locales, and select fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> and it does not create /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF8
> because in locale-gen script, there is 'localedef .... -A 
> /etc/locale.alias ....'

No, the reason is that localedef does not create files under
/usr/share/locale

> if manually, you enter the command:
> localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> so without -A option, it works

No, you are putting garbage there.

Could you please clean up your installation, and run
  $ locale -a | grep fr_FR
I am pretty sure that all your needed locales are listed, which
means that localedef did work as expected.

Denis