Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
Why is there no common setting of this - one file where all programs
read what the standard papersize/orientation etc should be?
There is, the paper size information is part of the locale.
It's just that not all programs use that information. And of course
they can only use those values for an initial setup. I.e., firefox
could only use the information when it creates a new profile. The
setting in existing profiles must be accepted.
If you find a program not respecting the information in the initial
setup, file a bug for that program. Point to the LC_PAPER locale category.
As a side note, I find it useful to lookup the locale database
for various things using the local util. For e.g.:
LANG=fr_FR locale int_prefix
So what's the corresponding command for paper size?
Why doesn't the locale command have a --list-all-fields option?
cheers,
Pádraig.
