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

Followup to:  <aaplfr$25o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> In the former case, I would like to propose a "worldwide compromise"
> page size -- 210 x 279 mm.  Such a page can be printed, cleanly, on
> either on A4 (210 x 297 mm) or US-letter (216 x 279 mm) by expanding
> either the horizontal (US-letter) or vertical (A4) margin.
> 

As I just found Markus' excellent page on the ISO paper sizes, I
didn't realize this format actually has a name, it's called PA4.
Quoting from Markus' page:

    It was proposed for an early draft of ISO 216 to recommended the
    special size 210 × 280 mm (a format sometimes called PA4) as an
    interim measure for countries that use 215 × 280 mm paper and have
    not yet adopted the ISO A series. Some magazines and other print
    products that have to be printed economically on both A4 and
    U.S. Letter presses use the PA4 format today. Incidentally, this
    PA4 format has a width/height ratio of 3:4, the same as
    traditional TV screens and most computer monitors and video modes.

I think it would be very wise for publishers of preformatted
electronic documents such as PDF to use the PA4 format in order to
maximize worldwide compatiblity.

        -hpa
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