On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 3:16:28 PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Since Wget 1.10 also prints sizes in kilobytes/megabytes/etc., I am
> thinking of removing the thousand separators from size display.
IMHO thousand (or myriad) separators are necessary.
This size display is primarily intended for humans, not for other
apps. If separators constitute a difficulty for other apps, then it's
these other apps problem. Or sed's task (s/,//g).
Humans can have habit to look at exact unit size, or rounded
kilo/mega/tera size, or both. It would be a regression to reduce
readability of legacy exact bytes count, just because we have a new
added more human-readable but rounded count.
> The separators are interpunction which introduces clutter, especially
> with complex size output also containing the "remaining" size next to
> the whole size.
True: The more info, the more confusion. But that's the contrary of
a valid reason to reduce readability of those infos. And IMHO removing
thousand separators reduces readability.
> replace the "," character with the character mandated by the locale
This seems naturally desirable. I don't really understand nor follow
your reasons against localization. User's cultural preferences should be
respected.
OTOS this is not so important nor urgent, compared to thousand
serparators removal cons.
Bye! Alain.
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