Hello, As an additional comment: localepurge purges character-set-related directories:
/usr/share/X11/locale/armscii-* /usr/share/X11/locale/georgian-* /usr/share/X11/locale/ibm-* /usr/share/X11/locale/iscii-* /usr/share/X11/locale/isiri-* /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-* /usr/share/X11/locale/koi8-* /usr/share/X11/locale/microsoft-* /usr/share/X11/locale/mulelao-* /usr/share/X11/locale/tatar-* /usr/share/X11/locale/tscii-* but AIUI these are needed for various needs, notably as fallbacks for most languages, in addition to the en_US.UTF-8 mentioned previously, as documented in compose.dir and locale.dir. So localepurge should leave these on the disk. Samuel