Adding locales on Ubuntu?

[Florian Diesch]

Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The output of `locale -a` include C, POSIX and a number of locales
> ending in utf8.  I need to have a few iso88591 locales as well, for
> viewing and manipulating text files in Latin-1.
>
> On Debian, I do this by adding them to /etc/locale.gen and run
> locale-gen (as root).  My Ubuntu machine doesn't have this file and
> /etc/belocs/locale-gen.conf looks quite different.

sudo locale-gen en_GB.ISO-8859-15   (or whatever locales you want)

You can edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/* manualy too.



   Florian
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