Standards wrt paper and standards

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai -at- wxs -dot- nl>]

I am curious about this, since the topic recently got talked about on
comp.std.internat:

how widely used and recognised is ISO paper designations in the USA?

I mean, if you would ask the average Joe or Jane Blow if they know what A4
is, would they know?

Reason for this is that one of the guys in the thread about this mentioned
the authors for ghostscript used parts of inches to approximate the size of
an A4 format, which is, of course, not useful at all.

How close is the industry and the general public towards accepting the
Internation Standards [SI] units and other format standards used widely over
the world, with the common exception of the USA?

Very curious,

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