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Date:      Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:25:34 -0400
From:      Parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        N Deepak <deep@symonds.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20051016192534.GA10301@holestein.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20051016112457.GA27876@symonds.net>
References:  <20051016112457.GA27876@symonds.net>

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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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