NetBSD Problem Report #44863

From dholland@macaran.localdomain  Tue Apr 12 22:54:39 2011
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From: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu
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Subject: print/poppler's MESSAGE
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>Number:         44863
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       print/poppler's MESSAGE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    reed
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 22:55:00 +0000 2011
>Last-Modified:  Wed Apr 13 09:42:45 +0000 2011
>Originator:     David A. Holland
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.49 (pkgsrc 20110408)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD macaran 5.99.49 NetBSD 5.99.49 (MACARAN) #8: Mon Apr 11 19:54:18 EDT 2011 dholland@macaran:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/MACARAN amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:


poppler's MESSAGE says


    To change the default paper size to US Letter, make sure that


	    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8


    is in your environment.


This is crazy -- even assuming it makes sense to use locales to select
the default paper size, which I question, LC_MESSAGES is supposed to
be used to choose the language that programs issue messages to the
user in. This has nothing whatsoever to do with paper size...  nor
does it have anything to do with the operational concerns that would
lead one to pick one or the other default paper size. It would make as
much sense to set LC_COLLATE.


Also, UTF-8 has nothing to do with paper size.


>How-To-Repeat:


cat(1)


>Fix:


If this is an accurate reflection of poppler's behavior, poppler is
broken. If it is not, the MESSAGE should be removed.


>Release-Note:


>Audit-Trail:


Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->reed
Responsible-Changed-By: hauke@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:42:45 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Over to maintainer.




>Unformatted:

 

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