Other Differences

Paper Sizes

Within each country a small number of paper sizes are commonly used, normally with one of those sizes being much more common than the others. Most countries follow ISO Standard 216: "Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter--Trimmed sizes--A and B series."

Internationalized applications should not make assumptions about the page sizes available to them. The Solaris system provides no support for tracking output page size; this is the responsibility of the application program. Table 1-5 shows Common International page sizes.

Table 1-5 Common International Page Sizes

Paper Type	Dimensions	Countries
ISO A4	21.0 cm by 29.7 cm	Everywhere except U.S.
ISO A5	14.8 cm by 21.0 cm	Everywhere except U.S.
JIS B4	25.9 cm by 36.65 cm	Japan
JIS B5	18.36 cm by 25.9 cm	Japan
U.S. Letter	8.5 inch by 11 inches	U.S. and Canada
U.S. Legal	8.5 inch by 14 inches	U.S. and Canada