How to use locale(1) to set default paper size?

[Gleb Popov]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:26 AM Don Lewis <truckman at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Already had that, but it didn't work. Only libpaper thing really helped.