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by teambayleaf 2196 days ago
Japan's "B5" originated from the official paper size in Edo-Tokugawa era. So it has quite a bit of history, and IMO it's handier than ISO papers.

A fun fact is that "letter" size is pretty much hated in Asian countries. Since many poorly-internationalized softwares choose "letter" as the default printing size, while its usage is virtually zero there.
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tasogare 2196 days ago
Yet in Japan there is a crazy number of different paper size and color, especially all the various slips used for bills and by the administration. The "post card bill" is also particularly annoying since once opened they don’t get flat again.
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Symbiote 2195 days ago
"Letter" size is only used in the USA, Canada and (sometimes) Mexico.

It's not just east Asia that can be annoyed by American defaults, but the whole world.

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el-salvador 2195 days ago
It is also used in Guatemala,El Salvador,Honduras,Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

It gets interesting when we start mixing imperial,metric and colonial measures.

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