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Who uses A4, and who uses Letter ?

At unicode.org the only locales listed as using Letter are the US and Canada.

Wikipedia agrees that only the US and Canada officially don’t use A4, but claims that in Mexico, Colombia, Chile and the Philippines Letter is nevertheless commonly used. Meanwhile at Microsoft the list of Letter using nations is: The US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and “Latin American countries”

As I’ve tried to document here, currently GTK thinks that the US, Canada and Puerto Rico are Letter users, while OpenOffice.org thinks that the list is the US, Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.

:-)

So, I still wonder, which nations excluding the US and Canada, would one truly find Letter as the true default in-use paper size.

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3 Responses to “Who uses A4, and who uses Letter ?”

  1. milek_pl says:
    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Ask Chavez if Venezuela uses US Letter size, and the next day your list won’t include Venezuela ;)

  2. Luis says:
    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    I’m in Chile. The most used formats here are:

    Carta (=US Letter)
    Oficio (=US Legal)
    A4

    Unfortunately, many people confuse A4 with US Letter here…

  3. Darío says:
    Monday, January 14th, 2013 at 2:51 am

    México here.

    Similar as Chile:

    Carta (=US Letter)
    Oficio (=US Legal)

    US Letter is for common and administrative use. Legal is for formal requests or legal issues.

    A4 is totaly alien and unknown for the people.

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