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From: Parv <parv@pair.com>
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Subject: Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?
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in message <20051016112457.GA27876@symonds.net>, wrote N Deepak
thusly...
>
> Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'.  This
> software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining
> locales.

I assume the user in this context is root?


> The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run
> into many megabytes.

I (may) like it.

One question: in a remote chance if one wants to convert/translate
text from one locale to another, will that conversion work (via
iconv & its ilk) devoid of the locale definitions?


  - Parv

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