Adding locales on Ubuntu?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Thu Jul 20 13:03:10 UTC 2006


Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2006-07-13, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>
>>>> sudo locale-gen en_GB.ISO-8859-15   (or whatever locales you want)
>>>
>>> That particular combination works, but not some others (see below),
>>
>> /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED lists all supported locales
>
> That doesn't work on my computer!
>
> /usr/share/i18n # grep fr_FR SUPPORTED 
> fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
> fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> fr_FR at euro ISO-8859-15
>
> /usr/share/i18n # locale-gen fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
> Error: 'fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' is not a supported language or locale
>
> /usr/share/i18n # locale-gen fr_FR.ISO-8859-15
> Error: 'fr_FR.ISO-8859-15' is not a supported language or locale
>
> /usr/share/i18n # locale-gen fr_FR at euro.ISO-8859-15
> Error: 'fr_FR at euro.ISO-8859-15' is not a supported language or locale

Look closer. There's only "fr_FR.UTF-8", "fr_FR" and "fr_FR at euro" (followed by
a space and the charset used with this locale)




   Florian
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