Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:36:46 +0100
> From: Per Starbäck <address@hidden>
> Cc: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>       "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli wrote:
> > If anything, for now I counted more people who
> > said they liked it than those who didn't (5 vs 9, by my count).  I'm
> > not saying we should already decide to leave it on, but turning it off
> > is certainly premature.  Less than two weeks have passed since the
> > pretest began, there's no rush.
> 
> Collecting feedback is good, but that counting seems pointless to me
> if you are counting one person mentioning that people in locale X will
> see that behaviour as buggy, dumb or completely oblivious to their
> culture as offset by one person saying they like the feature. It's not
> about liking the feature or not. We have to listen to what the
> feedback says instead of just counting it.

The issue is whether this should stay on by default, and those are the
only opinions I count (after carefully reading everything people write
about the subject).

The strength of the opinion is not something that IMO can be reliably
taken into account, because of different writing styles different
people use, and because for most of us English is not their first
language.  The nuances of the wording can therefore be entirely
random.