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Jun 012012
 

How to add a locale to Ubuntu server

Answer:

Ubuntu server only come with very few installed locales by default, e.g.

# locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX

To add more, e.g. zh_TW, you can type

# sudo locale-gen zh_TW

Then you can verify using the command locale -a again.

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