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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: What are the ISO paper sizes? (Was: An alternative I18N paradigm)
- Message-ID: <2607@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:05:45 GMT
- References: <1hkff3EINN5uv@uni-erlangen.de> <cline.725593960@ebony.cs.scarolina.edu> <1hvslkEINN2h3@uni-erlangen.de>
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- In article <1hvslkEINN2h3@uni-erlangen.de>
- mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
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- >>| - use ISO paper sizes (e.g. A4, C5, ...)
- >
- >>However, what I would like to know is what size is A4 or C5 or the rest
- >>of these map references that ISO uses for paper.
- >
- >As far as I know, these paper sizes are not only used by ISO, but by nearly
- >all countries on this world apart from North America and Japan.
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- While I personally think letter size is sometimes esthetically better
- than ISO, ISO paper sizes are dominant also in Japan.
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- Masataka Ohta
-