Locales in Debian-based dCore

Debian repositories contain the package locales-all that provides all locale files. The package is all inclusive but large (~25 MB), so a trimmed mylocale extension could be created.

The following approach has not been thoroughly tested but should work in principle. The technical steps are explained in more detail in the outline about locales in ub-Dcore.

1. Comment out the line in '~/.profile' that hard-codes the LANG to “en_US.UTF-8” and have it set through the boot-code lang (cf. below for the locale-codes).
2. Import and load the locales-all package. All imported locales are available under '/usr/lib/locale/'; its listing provides the locale-codes.

One may stick with the locale extension or – optionally – continue to put the selected locales into an extension.

1. Copy the desired locales aside and remove the locales-all extension.
2. Create an extension for the selected locales.

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