diff --git a/ast-ksh-locale.2010-02-02.tar.bz2 b/ast-ksh-locale.2010-02-02.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cd7220..0000000
--- a/ast-ksh-locale.2010-02-02.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:fdbec966b8bd2247f28ae7b9087cf310f029b141ad6711a5d2d1dab4ee6fea78
-size 552114
diff --git a/ksh.changes b/ksh.changes
index c83e0f6..455e9b5 100644
--- a/ksh.changes
+++ b/ksh.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul  5 15:17:58 UTC 2011 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Drop locale support as it is out of sync since year 2000 (bnc#703854) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul  4 15:19:20 UTC 2011 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/ksh.spec b/ksh.spec
index 9fa891f..004aaab 100644
--- a/ksh.spec
+++ b/ksh.spec
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Summary:        Korn Shell
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Source:         INIT.2010-06-21.tar.bz2
 Source1:        ast-ksh.2010-06-21.tar.bz2
-Source2:        ast-ksh-locale.2010-02-02.tar.bz2
 Source3:        CPL
 Source10:       leak1.sh
 Source11:       leak2.sh
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ Patch24:        ksh93-pipe.dif
 Patch25:        ksh93-argv.dif
 Patch26:        ksh93-unset-f.dif
 %global         use_suid_exe 0
-%global         use_locale 1
+%global         use_locale 0
 %global         debug_memleak 0
 
 %description