[Xprint] Is the locale being used sensibly by Xprint? LANG and LC_CTYPE are both used.

[Drew Parsons]

A Canadian user has reported trouble getting the correct paper to appear
under mozilla.  He needs to use letter, but mozilla displays a4 instead.

His bug report is at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282806

I presume Xprint is working correctly as written, and that he is seeing
this behaviour because he has LC_CTYPE set to "C", even though he has
LANG=en_CA.

xc/programs/Xserver/Xprint/attributes.c uses LANG in XpGetConfigDir( ),
but uses LC_CTYPE in XpSpoolerGetServerAttributes, which I gather is the
one reading in default-medium.

Does this behaviour make sense?  Should the same locale variable be used
in both places?

Would it make better sense to use LC_PAPER in both places?

Is it worth filing a bug report about this question?

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A related but separate question, Debian allows the system paper to be
defined in /etc/papersize, and it would be nice for Xprint's
default-medium to be set by it.  Is /etc/papersize a common mechanism
found in all or most unices and linuxes?


Drew