- From: Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-inc@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:39:32 -0800
- To: public-i18n-cjk@w3.org
On 11/2/2015 5:57 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > On 2015/11/02 23:34, Florian Rivoal wrote: >> >>> On 02 Nov 2015, at 06:11, Liam Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > >>>> as well as ISO-B4 and >>>> ISO-B5 as aliases to B4 and B5 for clarity. >>> I'm not in favour of this unless its worded as "implementations must >>> also accept...", >>> because a drop-down list with all the ISO sizes prefixed by ISO >>> would be quite irritating, especially for US and Canada people who'd >>> have to scroll past them all to get to US Letter, US Legal and US >>> Tabloid. :-) >> >> So we'd bias in favor of ISO against JIS for the prefix-less name. On >> the one hand, many more countries use ISO than JIS, but on the other >> hand, the B series (JIS) is common in Japan, and I am not sure it is >> elsewhere. I had at least never heard of it in France. > > Not in Switzerland either. We always used to think about the B series > as a series for envelopes, not paper. Right, and perhaps that's really the definition of the ISO B series? A./ > > Regards, Martin. > >
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