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

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From: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:25:23 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 393818 <393818@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Bruce Korb:
1. You cannot use printer as the only source for the paper size. For example, even if I didn't have any installed printers, I'd expect following command to work:
$ man -t groff paperconf | ps2pdf - - > paperconf.pdf
Which paper size should the resulting PDF file have? Currently the output PDF file paper size depends only on /etc/papersize. If you don't have root access, you cannot currently change the result.

2. LC_PAPER should contain full locale instead of just paper name
because LC_PAPER can/could also specify localizations for paper names
(e.g. "letter" is "kirje" in Finnish and I'd expect this paper name
specified by LC_PAPER locale).

3. POSIX locales include stuff like LC_COLLATE (sorting order) and (only
in draft) LC_PAPER for paper size exactly for the reason that you may
want to specify these differently. The LC_ALL is only a shortcut to
override all specific settings.

Could you specify which program the command "./paper" refers to in your
result display? I guess that's not a standard program because you
referred to it with a relative path.

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Title:
  libpaper should honor the LC_PAPER instead of /etc/papersize