Adding locales on Ubuntu?

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-07-13, Nik <nik at cheddarcheese.de> wrote:

> Can't you use:
>
> locale-gen <locale>

I've tried that with partial success --- see below.  Any idea why the
other three don't work, or how to force them to work?

Thanks,
Adam


# locale-gen en_GB.ISO-8859-1
Error: 'en_GB.ISO-8859-1' is not a supported language or locale

# locale-gen en_GB.ISO-8859-15
Generating locales...
  en_GB.ISO-8859-15... done
Generation complete.

# locale -a
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
fr_LU.utf8
POSIX
ro_RO.utf8

# locale-gen fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
Error: 'fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' is not a supported language or locale

# locale-gen fr_FR.ISO-8859-15
Error: 'fr_FR.ISO-8859-15' is not a supported language or locale