Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:13:44 -0700 From: N Deepak <deep@symonds.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: localepurge for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20051017031344.GA1378@symonds.net> In-Reply-To: <20051016192534.GA10301@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20051016112457.GA27876@symonds.net> <20051016192534.GA10301@holestein.holy.cow>
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Parv wrote: > > 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? > Yes. > > The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run > > into many megabytes. > > 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? > Likely not, but that's why it first shows a menu, where the user can keep locales he is interested in. OTOH, I just don't need most of those locales -- chinese, korean, japanese, ... I can use the same disk space for something better. Regards, Deepak
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