144625 - Default paper size on Linux should use LC_PAPER

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147419

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement)

Description

[James Henstridge]

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In recent versions of glibc (>=2.2, I think), there is support for retrieving
the default paper size associated with the locale (and can be overriden with the
LC_PAPER environment variable).

Using this would be a good way to ensure that people outside of North America
(and have their locales set correctly) see ISO paper sizes rather than american
ones.

The paper size can be retrieved with the nl_langinfo() function (must include
langinfo.h).  The two keys to pass as the argument _NL_PAPER_HEIGHT and
_NL_PAPER_WIDTH.

Unlike every other key passed to nl_langinfo, the glibc developers decided that
these two should return an int cast as a (char *) instead of a string, like the
man pages say it should.  The following has a small example of its use:
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-04/msg00187.html

The result is in millimeters.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Taking myself...

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

*** Bug 249432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

*** Bug 332210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Johan Bengtsson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Taking myself...
> 

So someone has been working on this since 2002...will it ever be fixed??

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 281057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 326305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Fabian Rodriguez:MagicFab]

Can someone please mark this as duplicate of #147419 which has been assigned ?

Comment 8

[Fabian Rodriguez:MagicFab]

Sorry about the confusion, please ignore my last comment. #147419 should be marked as duplicate of this one, since this one's been assigned. Tx.!

Comment 9

[Fabian Rodriguez:MagicFab]

It's either too late or someone slipped drugs in my last coffee ;)

I hate to say #7 was correct, so asking again to mark this as duplicate of #147419.

Comment 10

[Alexander Sack]

Roland, you can give us any hints on what to do in order to fix this?