Re: Slides from the I18N BOF

[Keld J鴕n Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:17:25AM +0800, 王原 wrote:
> Keld> Hmm, my understanding is that glibc locales only have one example of a
> Keld> timezone spec, and it is not Chinese, so where have you found this
> Keld> error?
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/timezone/?cvsroot=glibc
> That is the CVS archive of gblic, isn't it?

Yes, it is for glibc, but it is not locales. It is the Olsen timezone
database, AFAIK. Anyway, errors there should also be corrected.

> Because all the software under GNU/Linux uses Shanghai but not Bejing
> as the representive of China timezone, I think they must share the common
> library - glibc.
> 
> Keld> OK, so you use ISO paper sizes in China?
> I not sure we use ISO paper size. There are two main paper size used in
> China besides A4, both of them are specified via percentage of full size.
> For one, the full paper size will be 787mm x 1092mm. Is it ISO format?

787 x 1092 mm does not sound like an ISO standard. The most common ISO
paper size is A4 which is 210 x 297 mm, other ISO paper sizes are
divisions or multipla of this size in the power of 2. The base ISO
format is A0 which is something like 841 x 1189 mm giving a total paper
area of one square meter. Then there are variations thereof like B5.
See Markus Kuhns article at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

Best regards
keld