On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:26, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > > > > I don't understand this!  Could this be locale dependent?
> > > > 
> > > > No, sorry :((
> > > 
> > > So the default locale in Mandrake is United States,
> 
> there's no default locale

OK, let's try this. US is the locale selected at first in DrakX; this
makes sense because statistically out of all the possible *single
locales* more users will probably choose US than anywhere else (though
this is just a guess, does this match up with actual statistics?)
However, more Mandrake users by far will come from countries which use
SENSIBLE, STANDARD paper sizes (;>), since pretty much everywhere but
America uses the A-, B- etc size system, so it makes sense for A4 to be
the default paper size for printing. It's counter-intuitive, but it
actually makes sense.
-- 
adamw


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