[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters
Alexander Belchenko
bialix at ukr.net
Wed Mar 18 12:25:15 GMT 2009
Ben Finney пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
>
>> New progress bar shows traffic statistics with kB suffix.
>> I found this suffix odd because everywhere in computer industry
>> I see only "KB".
>>
>> Furthermore Wikipedia claims that "k" used for 1000 units (SI),
>> while "K" for 1024 units (JEDEC):
>
> Better, if this is to be fixed, would be to correctly use the SI units
> prefixes <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Prefixes> for
> each of decimal and binary multiples. In this case, it would be kB
> only for units of 1000 bytes, and KiB only for units of 1024 bytes.
>
KiB is not better: it's not widely used and eats one more character (i).
More information about the bazaar
mailing list