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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
