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+# Configuration file for locale-gen
+#
+# lists of locales that are to be generated by the locale-gen command.
+#
+# Each line is of the form:
+#
+#     <locale> <charset>
+#
+#  where <locale> is one of the locales given in /usr/share/i18n/locales
+#  and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps
+#
+#  Examples:
+#  en_US ISO-8859-1
+#  en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+#  de_DE ISO-8859-1
+#  de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
+#
+#  The locale-gen command will generate all the locales,
+#  placing them in /usr/lib/locale.
+#
+de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
+en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8