I want to be able to look at PDF, Xdisplayed,
international-text from
time to time, but like many people I'm basically
mono-lingual in my
UNIX headspace, and really don't need a locale. I'm never
going to ask
to see the cat -v option in spanish or mongolian. (I fully
respect the
rights of Spaniards and Mongolians to have in-language
messages. I
just don't need them myself.)
Is there a way to compile NetBSD such that I don't score the
overhead
of passes through ENV state to detect my locale, but I do
retain the
ability to use UTF-<x> fonts in X? As I understand it,
every binary and
shell is having to do indirection calls via locale state, to
tell me my
messages. I'd love to not have that happen.
I have a feeling that there is a runtime cost, and a disk
cost to all
this multi-lingualism which I could shed..
(hoping for yes, but expecting to be told no..)
-G
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