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Why are grid and scalebar measures 1mm too long in a 1:10000 print?

I used qgis 1.8 to compose a map from the WMS-service of the Belgian NGI. I added a scalebar and grid to it. When I measure it by hand, the distance between the longitudelines is 101mm instead of ...
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Different coordinate system for map project and scalebar?

Is it possible to specify a coordinate reference system (CRS) for the scalebar that is different to the project CRS? Example: my project CRS uses geographic coordinates (lat/long), the reason being ...