Actually, it seems to be that even after re-installing and purging the packages for the corresponding languages, some trace remains of which ones they were:
$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 fi_FI.utf8 POSIX
...and yet 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' produces:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done et_EE.UTF-8... done fi_FI.UTF-8... done fr_BE.UTF-8... done fr_CA.UTF-8... done fr_CH.UTF-8... done fr_FR.UTF-8... done fr_LU.UTF-8... done lv_LV.UTF-8... done ru_RU.KOI8-R... done ru_RU.UTF-8... done ru_UA.UTF-8... done sv_FI.UTF-8... done sv_SE.UTF-8... done Generation complete.
Actually, it seems to be that even after re-installing and purging the packages for the corresponding languages, some trace remains of which ones they were:
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
fi_FI.utf8
POSIX
...and yet 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' produces:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_BW.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_DK.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_HK.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_PH.UTF-8... done
en_SG.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
en_ZM.UTF-8... done
en_ZW.UTF-8... done
et_EE.UTF-8... done
fi_FI.UTF-8... done
fr_BE.UTF-8... done
fr_CA.UTF-8... done
fr_CH.UTF-8... done
fr_FR.UTF-8... done
fr_LU.UTF-8... done
lv_LV.UTF-8... done
ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
ru_RU.UTF-8... done
ru_UA.UTF-8... done
sv_FI.UTF-8... done
sv_SE.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.