[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Wed Mar 18 15:02:40 GMT 2009


Gioele Barabucci пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> KiB is not better: it's not widely used and eats one more character (i).
> While KiB is not as used as KB, but it's more and more used. Many linux 
> utilities use KiB right now.
> 
> Also, one more character in the traffic counter is not that important.

There will be 2 extra characters because bzr shows amount of data as "XkB" and
speed as "YkB/s". Some people are using 80 characters wide terminals...

> Last, it costs almost nothing to follow what BIPM and NIST asks.
> 
> «BIPM (the International Bureau of Weights and Measures which maintains SI) 
> expressly prohibits the binary prefix usage, and recommends the use of the 
> IEC prefixes as an alternative since computing units are not included in SI. 
> The binary definition of the prefixes k, M, G etc is not permitted by the 
> United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).»
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes
> 




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