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

	without locale modules compiled in there's no use in having 
	locale-related logic.

itojun