diff --git a/share/locale-links/Makefile b/share/locale-links/Makefile
index 2f20218bc1b4..22179db1d33d 100644
--- a/share/locale-links/Makefile
+++ b/share/locale-links/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,13 @@
-# This creates short versions of locales as symlinks to full versions
-# e.g. zh_Hant_TW is a symlink to zh_Hant_TW.UTF-8.
-
-UTF8=	af_ZA am_ET be_BY bg_BG ca_AD ca_ES ca_FR ca_IT \
-	cs_CZ da_DK de_AT de_CH de_DE el_GR en_AU en_CA \
-	en_GB en_HK en_IE en_NZ en_PH en_SG en_US es_AR \
-	es_CR es_ES es_MX et_EE eu_ES fi_FI fr_BE fr_CA \
-	fr_CH fr_FR he_IL hi_IN hr_HR hu_HU hy_AM is_IS \
-	it_CH it_IT ja_JP ko_KR lt_LT lv_LV nb_NO \
-	nl_BE nl_NL nn_NO pl_PL pt_BR pt_PT ro_RO ru_RU \
-	se_FI se_NO sk_SK sl_SI sv_FI sv_SE tr_TR uk_UA \
-	kk_Cyrl_KZ \
-	mn_Cyrl_MN \
-	sr_Cyrl_RS \
-	sr_Latn_RS \
-	zh_Hans_CN \
-	zh_Hant_HK \
-	zh_Hant_TW
-
-LOCALEDIR=	${SHAREDIR}/locale
-
-SYMLINKS=	zh_Hant_TW.UTF-8 ${LOCALEDIR}/zh_TW
-
-.for symdir in ${UTF8}
-SYMLINKS+=	${symdir}.UTF-8 ${LOCALEDIR}/${symdir}
-.endfor
 
 # We need to keep zh_CN.* around as aliases to zh_Hans_CN.* because some
 # of the lang catalogs use zh_CN still (e.g. vi), plus people may expect it
 # We won't alias zh_Hans_CN or zh_Hans_UTF8 though
 .for CN in GB18030 GB2312 GBK UTF-8 eucCN
 SYMLINKS+=	zh_Hans_CN.${CN} ${LOCALEDIR}/zh_CN.${CN}
 .endfor
 
 .for TW in Big5 UTF-8
 SYMLINKS+=	zh_Hant_TW.${TW} ${LOCALEDIR}/zh_TW.${TW}
 .endfor
 
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>