I know I am naive about this, but having been unable to google back
to the original opengroup.org discussion, I wind up wanting to understand
a few things:
1. Isn't paper size a function of the size of the paper in the printer?
Why is this properly a system setting or a locale issue?
2. Given that you want to put it into a locale, why would you spell
"letter" as "en_US" and "A4" as "en_UK"? It is difficult for me
to make sense out of this. I like simple and obvious things.
3. Since POSIX locale means A4 paper and en_US locale means
permuted directory entry sorting, please continue to support
/etc/papersize as the primary paper size selector. LC_PAPER
is not really supported and LC_ALL is, thus, overloaded. I like
directory listings to be ASCII sorted and my printer is loaded with
letter sized paper. It seems not to be possible to specify this
preference, Ulrich Drepper notwithstanding.
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libpaper should honor the LC_PAPER instead of /etc/papersize
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