Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:27:13 -0500
David Starner <starner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:30:46PM -0400, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> >  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*.
> 
> And Debian psutils uses /etc/papersize (actually libpaperg, a wrapper
> around that one line file), since that's the Debian way. The
> locale method doesn't make sense, as what size paper the printer has is
> not usually a user setting. Also, the locale system has two
> alternatives, letter or A4, ignoring the possiblity that someone might
> have, say, legal size paper loaded.

If /etc/papersize is specific to Debian, how would developers
consistently detect something like paper size? I think using LC_PAPER
should be enough to satisfy most programs. The rest should be handled
by an external program like qtcups. That can consult /etc/papersize in
Debian or whatever the LSB is recommending.

Mike

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