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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"