Re: PostgreSQL Magazine #00 is out ! Send feedback please !

On Thursday 9. June 2011 09.36.51 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2011 9:30 AM, "damien clochard" <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
> > Le 09/06/2011 02:38, Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
> > > On 06/08/2011 01:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > >> That also falls under the heading of spending money we don't have to.
> > >> Especially since printing on A4 would cost us 4X as much as printing
> > >> on US, even if we were paying for printing on US.
> > >
> > > Just as a follow up to this, I thought JB was not quite accurate but I
> > > checked. It is going to be expensive to print this at A4. This didn't
> > > used to be true (which is why I checked) but nowadays with the whole
> > > on-demand thing, the printers have really unified (at least in the
> > > states) around our ridiculous measuring system.
> >
> > Understood.
> > My next question would be : "Is that true in others countries ?"
> >
> > What is the default paper format outside North America and Europe ?
>
> I am pretty sure that A4 is the default everywhere except the us and
> Canada. Though japan may be different too?

<flame>I wonder if the people of the US is suffering from a collective "Not
Invented Here"-syndrome?</flame>

regards, Leif