How important are ISO standards to Fedora?

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Wed Feb 13 09:37:43 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 9:20 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Feb 12, 2008 9:05 PM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
>>     
>>> Wouldn't it be more correct for Fedora to default to the ISO standard
>>> for paper (A4, etc) than to the US standard for paper (letter, etc)?
>>>       
>> Fedora's default papersize setting... where?
>>     
>
> Take a close look at the file cupshelpers.py
>
> in system-config-printer
>
> Letter is selected by default only for a small number of specific
> locales.  What more do you want? Blood?
>
> If you are going to argue that we should make A4 the default, even for
> en_US and en_CA... locations where printers can be assumed that Letter
> sized paper is what is in the trays... you and I are going to have a
> serious discussion about balancing usability against idealism.
>
> -jef"You want A4 to be the default for en_US, meet me on the steps of
> the capital building in DC and spend a week championing the cause of
> metric system adoption.  You'll know who I am. I'll be the one holding
> the medications with your name on the bottle"spaleta
>
>   
+1 Fedora should default to the ISO standard..

Best regards.
                Johann B.

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