Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:26:25 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to use locale(1) to set default paper size? Message-ID: <tkrat.b6e87bcba6e9415a@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CALH631kMMK3boE5nndyEnM-_u7nw7%2B05KMiQiEMvcP-0OD9g7w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALH631kMMK3boE5nndyEnM-_u7nw7%2B05KMiQiEMvcP-0OD9g7w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19 Dec, Gleb Popov wrote: > Hello hackers@ > > When I launch LibreOffice Writer, the default page size is set to "Letter". > From what I read on Internets, the canonical way to set default paper size > is via locale(1). Many sites propose setting LC_PAPER env var to > ru_RU.UTF-8 to get "A4" as default size. > > On FreeBSD, however, running `locale -ck` doesn't show a category for paper > size and setting LC_PAPER variable doesn't seem to work for LibreOffice. > > Any ideas what can be done about that? Go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages and change Locale Setting to Russian. When you create a new document and go to Format -> Page, you should see that the paper format is now A4.
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