Bug#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:30:54PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 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
Okay, I re-read the man page and understand your confusion.
Before 2.3.2, files were generated under /usr/lib/locale (which
is given at the bottom of localedef --help, as told in the man
page) but all locales are now merged into a single file
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.
Denis
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