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From around stack exchange:

Compiled locale files take about 50MB of disk space.

Well, I thought that locales simply advise programs on what language or time format to use, but 50MB is a lot of data. What information is stored in these localization files generated by locale-gen? Common translations? Culinary recipes?

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  • Can you provide a link to where you found that quote? Also, 50MB is nothing in these days, unless you operate on a micro-controller, but you would not install a full Ubuntu system there anyway. I'd not worry about it.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Sep 29, 2016 at 20:31
  • As a start, you might read man locale-gen.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Sep 29, 2016 at 20:32
  • It seems the quote comes directly from the man page, but little more is written there about the purpose of these files.
    – Brikowski
    Sep 29, 2016 at 21:49

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The locale definition files, with the information in cleartext (well, sort of...), are located in the /usr/share/i18n/locales folder. The compiled locale data is stored in the /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file, which is normally far smaller than 50 MB. To see which locales are currently compiled you can run:

locale -a
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