It seems LC_PAPER is GNU extensions but not POSIX.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Special-Shell-Variables.html
It may be better to use getenv("LC_PAPER") besides setlocale(LC_PAPER, NULL)
until the RFE is fixed.
Darren Kenny-san wrote (05/27/09 07:52 PM):
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 26/05/2009 16:14, Brian Cameron wrote:
>> Darren:
>>
>> If you needed to modify the patch to get it to backport, then I'd
>> recommend updating it as a new attachment in the bug report and
>> encourage the maintainers to put this patch into the next 2.26
>> release. I think it is a serious enough usability issue that 2.26
>> users would appreciate this fix, especially if you already did all
>> the work to prepare the patch.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean - I backported the fix from the GIT changes - and
> the
> modifications were mainly just to get it to apply since other lines in the
> files
> had all changed and as such it wouldn't apply using the patch command.
>
> I can't see any benefit of having the community make a change in 2.26 when
> it's
> already fixed and working there. If you mean putting it into the next 2.22
> release then that's slightly different, and maybe worth mentioning, but I
> can't
> imagine that there is likely to be a new 2.22 release of evince any time soon,
> but I've updated the bug anyway :)
>
>> We should also file an enhancement request upstream so that the evince
>> community can consider making the default letter size based on the
>> user's locale setting, as Jim suggests later in the thread. That
>> seems a reasonable enhancement request that someone in the community
>> might have an interest in working on.
>
> That already works upstream - Linux has the LC_PAPER locale variable - it's
> Solaris that's lacking in this department, so needs to be fixed on Solaris...
>
> I've logged an RFE to track this request:
>
> 6845408 - Solaris needs a mechanism to determine default print page
> size based on locale.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren.
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