On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David Starner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:32:39PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > This leads to portable and agreeable default settings, using the > > standard values > > Paper size depends on the physical size of paper in the printer, not > anything having to do with the locale.
Well, I'm afraid it's a bit too stong a statement that it has nothing to do with the locale. It's a reasonable assumption that people living in the US (who have LANG set to en_US.xxx without explicitly setting LC_PAPER) want to use US letter by default while people elsewhere want to use A4 by default. That's why we have LC_PAPER. And, Markus's example C code has nothing wrong except that in the future, nl_langinfo() may be used instead of strstr() whereever possible. > In Debian, /etc/papersize holds > the default papersize. It seems entirely likely that an American abroad Debian should support LC_PAPER locale category instead of relying on /etc/papersize. psutil (psresize, psnup,etc) relies on it to pick the default paper size. If it's set to en_US.xxx, it uses letter *by default*. Otherise, it uses A4 *by default*. > might use en_US.UTF-8, whereas a Hindu in American might want to use > hi_IN.UTF-8, no matter what the printer sitting beside them holds. Pls, don't forget that there are many locale categories. (S)he may have the following: LANG=hi_IN.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 Similarly, I (a Korean living in the US) have (this is actually what I use): LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 # I need this because otherwise psutils uses A4. LC_MESSAGES=C # Korean translation is a bit too cryptic to understand ;-) Jungshik Shin _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
