Bug 498566

Summary: Kate defaults to A4 paper size for printing despite en-US locale
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Steve Zakulec <spzakulec>
Component: generalAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: john.kizer
Priority: NOR    
Version: 24.12.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93834
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Printer settings
My region settings

Description Steve Zakulec 2025-01-12 16:42:54 UTC
Created attachment 177302 [details]
Printer settings

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Kate 
2. Press CRTL-P to bring up Print Menu
3. Go to properties for default printer

OBSERVED RESULT
Printer shows that the selected paper size is A4

EXPECTED RESULT
Paper size should be Letter.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 6.2
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-51-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Additional info:

Results of 'locale':
locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Printer is set correct, and locale in KDE System Settings is set correct (see attachments).
Comment 1 Steve Zakulec 2025-01-12 16:43:31 UTC
Created attachment 177303 [details]
My region settings
Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-01-16 06:35:33 UTC
Hi - thanks for your bug report! This particular issue appears to be in code that is part of the Qt toolkit, upstream of KDE projects. The URL for the most recent related open bug report with Qt is https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93834

Thanks!