[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

[Alexander Belchenko]

You'd better send this to the list instead of me personally.
As I see this topic became a bikesheding discussion.
In this case much simpler to reject the patch and leave things "as is".

Willem Voogd пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry to mix in, since I'm in no way a bazaar developer I may be out of 
> my league here, but as a bazaar user I would like to state, with all 
> respect, that not adhering to standards because they are not widely used 
> implies to me that the statement that we should all use the old MS .doc 
> format for documents and not the standard odt (ODF) one.
> 
> Standards are there to be used, and when nobody does that (yet) somebody 
> has to start doing so.
> 
> just my 2cts, spend 'em as you please ;)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Willem
> 
> Alexander Belchenko schreef:
>> 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).
>>
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