LINUXOPOLIS # 2019-11-12 ~ LANGUAGES

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INSTALLATION/CONFIGURATION

• # apt-get purge locales
• # apt-get install locales
• # dpkg-reconfigure locales
• # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
• # locale-gen

PATHS

• /etc/locale.gen
• /etc/default/locale
• /etc/environment  ( login - gdm - ssh )

COMMANDS

• $ locale
• $ apt-cache show locales
• $ locale -a

LANGUAGE-CODE

• language-code_COUNTRY-CODE
• ISO-8859-1    “Latin 1”
• ISO-8859-15   “Latin 9”
• UTF-8         unicode.org

SOURCES

• file:///usr/share/doc/debian-handbook/html/en-US/basic-configuration.html#sect.config-language-support
• wiki.debian.org/Locale
• unicode.org