locales

This project contains non-official locale definitions for Linux.

For official locale definitions compatible with glibc, check https://lh.2xlibre.net/. This site also contains an installation script in Python for Debian based systems (untested).

How to install

Note: all commands need to be run as root.

Ubuntu (tested on 20.04).

• Add the locale definition to the list of supported locales: echo 'en_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
• Copy the locale definition file to the locale definitions directory: cp en_BE /usr/share/i18n/locales/
• Compile the new locale: localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_BE en_BE.UTF-8
• Add the locale to the list of locales that should be generated: echo 'en_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en
• Generate locales locale-gen --purge

Fedora (tested on 43)

• Copy the locale definition file to the locale definitions directory: cp en_BE /usr/share/i18n/locales/
• Compile the new locale: localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_BE en_BE.UTF-8
• The above command should add the compiled locale data the archive file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.

List of locales

• en_BE: Copy of fr_BE with the following changes:
  • Names of weekdays, months,... in English
  • ISO date format (YYYY-mm-dd'T'HH:MM:SS Z, e.g. 2022-03-16T21:48:28 CET)