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On 07/30/12 12:28, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> My point here is that you want the thing to change. So you first try to |
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> convince people here to change. We practically did a small survey here |
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> and in the result we didn't agree on doing the change. |
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> So you're saying we should do another survey on another group, hoping |
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> that this time the result will be on your side. |
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We didn't do a survey, we asked, |
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"Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" |
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default value?" |
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Unsurprisingly, the responses contained reasons for not using |
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en_US.UTF-8 as the default. |
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Don't take my original reply out of context, I don't actually care what |
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we have as the default. |
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> It depends on who the 'unbiased sample' is. Are you interested only in |
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> opinion of Gentoo users who visit the website? Who sync once a day? |
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> Once a week? Who follow Gentoo Planet? Who participate in the forums? |
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> We can create the survey and announce it everywhere. But it still won't |
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> catch many old-time Gentoo users who can actually have something |
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> opposite to say. It won't be unbiased. |
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The technical objection to C.UTF-8 is that it's non-standard, Ok. What |
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are the technical objections to LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8? If the |
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alternatives are all improvements, the statistics are irrelevant. |
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