how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data?

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 06:53:24PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:

> there are a number of packages that want to link with or use that 
> data, and you can't always disable it, but it's very very big (38MB?), 
> especially in the context of an appliance that doesn't really need it 
> at all.

I am see only 6MB (not 38MB) on disk.
This is like some data for iconv.