From acb942863558e54d4643224edc23efa5514cb49b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sadie Powell <sadie@sadiepowell.dev>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 12:58:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Backport the locales-all advice from 2.1.

---
 docs/LANGUAGE | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/LANGUAGE b/docs/LANGUAGE
index a8acdd31b..f9cfeb84a 100644
--- a/docs/LANGUAGE
+++ b/docs/LANGUAGE
@@ -10,14 +10,9 @@ Anope Multi Language Support
 
     To build Anope with gettext support, gettext and its development libraries must be installed on the system.
 
-    On Debian install the locales-all package.
+    On Debian-based systems install the locales-all package.
 
-    On Ubuntu run locale-gen for each language you want to enable.
-        For example:
-        locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
-
-        Then execute:
-        dpkg-reconfigure locales
+    On RHEL-based systems run `yum list glibc-langpack-*` and install the languages you want to enable.
 
     If you have already built Anope you will need to delete the build directory and rebuild from scratch.