various Chinese "Kai" sizes (Was: [PATCH] add 'Japanese Postcard' paper size to both Paper format and Print dialog)

[Takeshi Abe]

Hi Caolán,

Thank you for your comment!

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:09:19 +0000, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> It wouldn't make sense to exclude Japanese Postcard size, when we show
> the rather bizarre Chinese "Kai" sizes, which despite my best efforts
> (see my old docs at
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DefaultPaperSize) I could never
> figure out if we have the right sizes for those, or if it even makes
> sense to assign them a size.
One of relevant specification on Chinese "Kai (or K)" sizes is "Standard for
Media Standardized Names" [1] published by the Printing Working Group, which
includes registration for names of media sizes.
It recognizes a couple of flavor of "K"s, i.e., 'PRC' [2] and 'ROC' [3].
Each of them has its own 8K/16K etc., which may explain part of the above
confusion.

[1] ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-pwgmsn10-20020226-5101.1.pdf
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China

Cheers,
-- Takeshi Abe