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[Bug 393818] Re: libpaper should honor the LC_PAPER instead of /etc/papersize

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From: Bruce Korb <393818@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:29:00 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 393818 <393818@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393818
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