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langpack-locales package

Paper Size is wrong for locale es_CO (A4 -> Letter)

Bug #27622 reported by Jorge E. Gómez
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GLibC
Fix Released
Medium
belocs-locales-data (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Sadly, A4-sized paper is not really used in Colombia. The standard paper size is
US-Letter.

When running this command:
LC_PAPER=es_CO locale -k LC_PAPER

Result:
height=297
width=210
...

Expected result:
height=279
width=216

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks for your report, will fix soon.

Changed in langpack-locales:
assignee: jbailey → pitti
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Should be fixed in Debian, too.

Changed in belocs-locales-data:
assignee: nobody → barbier-linuxfr
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

 langpack-locales (2.3.12) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * locales/en_NZ: Add AM/PM definition (Malone #34262)
   * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)
   * locales/eo: Rename to eo_XX, since that's the format that other programs
     expect (Malone #23435)
   * locales/es_CO: Change standard paper size from A4 to US Letter. (Malone
     #27622)

Changed in langpack-locales:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote :

Hi sometime around hardy or before (it's not clear at this point) the LC_PAPER variable for es_CO.UTF8 locale was resynced from debian leading to a4 papersize again which is incorrect.

at this moment with Jaunty a5 and Intrepid fully updated we've got:

 locale -ck LC_PAPER
LC_PAPER
height=297
width=210
paper-codeset="UTF-8"

insted of

 locale -ck LC_PAPER
LC_PAPER
height=270
width=216
paper-codeset="UTF-8"

Changed in langpack-locales:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote :
Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)
Changed in belocs-locales-data:
assignee: barbier-linuxfr → nobody
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in glibc:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote :

hmm something weird happened, according to upstream bug report was solved.. so, i'm not sure when was introduced again and how..

anyway i've confirmed it's present again in intrepid and jaunty

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in langpack-locales:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Changed in belocs-locales-data:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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In , Caolanm (caolanm) wrote :

glibc-2.9.90:

The upcoming CLDR 1.7 will apparently take on board the changes of
http://unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs?user=guest;findid=1710 to record that
certain territories typically default to using the Letter size format rather
than the more standard A4, i.e. US, CA, PR, VE, CL, MX, CO and PH

Attached is a suggested patch to change the matching locales in glibc to default
LC_PAPER to Letter for locales matching those territories.

(more info: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DefaultPaperSize)

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In , Caolanm (caolanm) wrote :

Created attachment 3831
suggestion

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In , Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This is confirmed by requests in https://launchpad.net/bugs/27622

Changed in glibc:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: Invalid → Unknown
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Uploaded, will be accepted after beta.

Changed in langpack-locales (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glibc:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package langpack-locales - 2.9+cvs20090214-7

---------------
langpack-locales (2.9+cvs20090214-7) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add iso14651_kra_sorting.patch: Fix sorting of 'ĸ'. (LP: #325159)
  * Add es_CO-papersize.patch: Standard paper size in Columbia is US Letter,
    not A4. (LP: #27622)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:07:48 +0100

Changed in langpack-locales:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
In , Drepper-fsp (drepper-fsp) wrote :

I've applied the patch without the useless references to some other system.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glibc:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glibc:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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