How I use locales in Alpine

[yograterol]

We are migrating all docker images to Alpine base, but a software need set locales in the system but locales not found and I don't know how install locales command with this images.

locale -a or locale-gen

[andyshinn]

Unfortunately, the musl libc locale system doesn't appear to be very complete at the moment. There is a little bit of information on it at http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/08/01/1. But there are no tools in Alpine to generate locales or set up the MUSL_LOCPATH variable. Some reference from Void Linux (also running musl libc) about no locale support at the moment at https://forum.voidlinux.eu/t/x86-64-musl-void-installer-cannot-set-locale/57.

Sorry :(

Referencing #102 as well.

[yograterol]

Well, for this app I will use another distro :(

[ulope]

Is there a reason that this was closed? It seems to me there is still no way to generate locales?

[rilian-la-te]

I wrote some simple tool with many bugs. It contains locale executable and template for generate MUSL locale files;
https://github.com/rilian-la-te/musl-locales

[forstjiri]

So there is now no easy way to install locale (cs_CZ.utf8) in container? I would need it for my PHP application to print translated dates.

[rilian-la-te]

Install my tool, make a MO file for cs_CZ.utf8 (and make a PR).
Name it cs_CZ.utf8 and move to locale dir (configured at CMake).

And use cs_CZ.utf8 as LANG and LC_ALL.