On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:08 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mardi 11 septembre 2007 à 23:19 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> Rodd Clarkson (rodd(a)clarkson.id.au) said:
> > The installer asks you to locate your time-zone. Couldn't you use this
> > as a trigger for including the US patent encumbered stuff for non US
> > citizens.
> >
> > Oh and could this be used for setting my paper preference to A4 by
> > default instead of having to change this each time I set up a printer?
>
> Doesn't LC_PAPER cover this?
If apps respected it.
locale|grep PAPER
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8 ← should not be letter
Hmmm, I get
[rodd@localhost ~]$ locale | grep PAPER
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
I use US english, but I live in Australia (which is used as my timezone)
so what should it do?
Personally, I think it should default to ISO (A4) and then this might
get the attention of US developers who find themselves using the wrong
paper and fixing this properly. I don't know how many countries use
non-ISO paper sizes, but there can't be too many (Rumor has it, it's the
US and one small country nobody knows the name of)
So many apps hardcode letter by default and revert to it at the
slightest excuse it's not even remotely funny. (another favorite is if
you press print in the app before powering on your printer, the system
will remember the printer was stopped and you have to go into
system-config-printer to restart the print queue)
I thought this was fixed, but maybe it isn't. It was (however) very annoying.
R.
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