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<p>Hi,<br>
<br>
As with other locale commands, the more specific ones are only
needed if they differ from the base locale.<br>
<br>
E.g. if the base locale is en_US and LC_PAPER is unset, use letter<br>
<br>
I'm German but my system language is US english, my locale looks
like this:<br>
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❯ locale<br>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br>
LANGUAGE=en_US<br>
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8<br>
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8</p>
<p>I'm on Ubuntu using KDE and adjusted these through the "Language"
and "Formats" system settings</p>
<p>Cheers<br>
Max<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11.06.24 16:04, Zdenek Wagner wrote:<br>
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On unix, there is `LC_PAPER` in the locale.<br>
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<div>I have just tried on Fedora, Raspbian, and Debian and
LC_PAPER is not set. I do not have access to computers with
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The unix installer could chose the default according to
this.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Max<br>
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On 11.06.24 00:16, Karl Berry wrote:<br>
> I can remove it if someone can certify that a
virgin installation on a<br>
> virgin OS will correctly default to Letter for
Americans and A4 for<br>
> everyone else,<br>
><br>
> No. The default is a4, regardless. I know of no
feasible way to make it<br>
> geographically based (even if that was desirable, which
IMHO it isn't).<br>
><br>
> As I wrote on <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html</a>,
you can change<br>
> this by giving the option --paper=letter on the
cmdline, or checking the<br>
> box in the (gui|cmdline) installer.<br>
> <br>
> and set the MF resolution to HP-300 or something
sensible.<br>
><br>
> The default in TL has always ljfour/600. I just looked
at the first TL<br>
> (2003) config file and it was ljfour.<br>
><br>
> I have no idea why the MF resolution should affect
anything nowadays<br>
> unless someone uses one of the last remaining MF
fonts<br>
><br>
> Right. The Cyrillic lh* fonts being the most likely
example.<br>
><br>
> I have had installations where it defaults to
silly<br>
> things like Epson 120dpi.<br>
><br>
> I can't see how that would have ever happened with
native TL.<br>
> With downstream distributors, who knows. --happy
doc-ing, karl.<br>
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-- <br>
Dr.<br>
Maximilian Linhoff<br>
PostDoc Astroteilchenphysik<br>
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Technische Universität Dortmund<br>
Fakultät Physik / Astroteilchenphysik<br>
Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a<br>
44227 Dortmund<br>
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Tel.: +49 231 755 8895<br>
<a href="mailto:maximilian.linhoff@tu-dortmund.de"
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Dr.
Maximilian Linhoff
PostDoc Astroteilchenphysik
Technische Universität Dortmund
Fakultät Physik / Astroteilchenphysik
Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a
44227 Dortmund
Tel.: +49 231 755 8895
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:maximilian.linhoff@tu-dortmund.de">maximilian.linhoff@tu-dortmund.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://app.tu-dortmund.de">https://app.tu-dortmund.de</a></pre>
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