Is it safe to remove "Developer" folder?

I never use the developer tools, so can I just drag the "Developer" folder to the trash and free up 900mb of space?

Are you talking about that thing you type into terminal? I tried that. It just gave me some error message and didn't do anything.I'm not real savvy with terminal though, which explains why I want to delete these developer tools

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Why did you want to delete this folder? Its size is so small for your whole computer.
This symptom is normal. "fr-FR" is your primary language. However, system main file need English to display and run many files.
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Hi, thanks for answering. Actually I had attempted to use that script as mentioned in my post. It had worked reliably before but it did not work when I ran it a second time. I suspected that a botched installation using the CHUD package on the Leopard DVD had screwed up something in the bom, preventing the perl script from doing a proper job of cleaning out all the files.
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