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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