Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:27:27PM +0200, Lars Engebretsen wrote:
> > Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > The problem here is satisfying users, not programs. Papersize is a
> > > setting that is specific to available printers, not to any locale
> > > one may use.
> > 
> > What should the default paper size be in an application that
> > creates PDF documents?
> 
> Maybe both /etc/papersize and LC_PAPER have use.  But their field of
> application has to be clearly defined for programmers to do the right
> thing...

I am not sure how the default is set for /etc/papersize.
Does the user need to know that this file should be edited, and then
know which values are valid? Or is this asked for during the install
process? It is a long time since I tried to install debian, and much may
have changed since then. 

And what if you do not edit /etc/papersize? Do you then always get A4?
Or maybe "letter"?

The nice thing about LC_PAPER is that it is set either on installation,
or as part of the normal setup. I think most people knows how to set the
locale, while some, maybe many, would not know that there be a
/etc/papersize file.

LC_PAPER was in 14652 at some time but was taken out, because some
people thought that it was not useful :-(

Best regards
Keld
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