From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BFE13800E for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98D5EE0525; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B1AE059B for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so3001196bkw.40 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:42:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=mcamZSSfZ0a7igAL72CFY8zREbTbt2Ucn4ETUhued+g=; b=rh2uY+AxfD+KSPe6KnPFagQ0cy8clbJ49mX29Wq8m/50tPBQGQfbHrbnqrHhHTRcnY bx24AW7//HlKUcy52z+GcFTWcilCl4wvtgrIdyLoueYnbTf+SIDnwJXWSSO2J8Oc+zO4 dXtqYXPWrI9e261o98pHqmYAiua1knmjKBZinZ1BeDKmFoO+nxdeUprPbdVI5ih9zJIf aJnPgKtsX6UprP0MNL0nsJryGEHGYN5RSJmbId8S4twIRN+yhezKoPO8+O88eHdLJHx8 mJnQ30sFf2h3sG4YuJRyMif1EjRQ4jXwVtkFkKKrYurzXnu5lmOm4MwpejNbGFgolW9H 2AZA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.147.65 with SMTP id k1mr1742936bkv.29.1343659321454; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.33.10 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:42:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50169BB8.4030408@orlitzky.com> References: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> <20498.15988.225230.614853@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <501285DC.2020207@gentoo.org> <201207271324.48571.vapier@gentoo.org> <1343413763.7511.1.camel@belkin4> <5012F712.7030806@gentoo.org> <50169BB8.4030408@orlitzky.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c19bd6ac-7943-4266-b77a-b8fd41321410 X-Archives-Hash: 22def41bb67bed685521dc838888a340 On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> >> No user will be happy with whatever we decide to use as a default. > > The defaults should be what's best for the most people, with a bias > towards safety. Why don't we just take a survey and choose the most > common utf8 response? You'd really want to a "which do you prefer, which can you use" survey, then; You don't really want to choose the result preferred by the most people, rather you want the result which is usable by the most people. -- :wq