On 07/30/12 10:41, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:35:36 -0400
> Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> 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?
>
> How can you take a survey like that? How will you ensure it actually
> hits the majority? How will you define the majority?
>
Considering that the alternative is to force everyone to change it
manually, you can do it however you want and it'll be an improvement.
1) Create a webpage with a bunch of options, count the results
2) Ask the g.o mailing lists, count responses manually
3) Use google docs like the website survey that went out a few days
ago
It won't hit everyone, but no survey ever does. As long as you get a
large enough unbiased sample, it doesn't matter. And anything would be
an improvement, so it doesn't matter anyway.
