> >>Synopsis:       Multibyte locale support for statically linked programs
> 
> 	it has been disabled in the interest of / partition size.
> 
> itojun

While keeping stuff in the root partition small is important, if no
locale modules are compiled in (the default in my patches) the growth
would be minimal, certainly less than 1k per program. This patch brings
additional flexibility to those of us who prefer static linking for most
programs.

-hjalmar