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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>
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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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