[PATCH] use KB instead of kB for traffic counters

Willem Voogd willem at minkevoogd.nl
Wed Mar 18 13:35:44 GMT 2009


Ah ok, I just replied, thinking i was sending to the list. Most mailing 
lists i am subscribed to have the lists address as 'reply-to' address.
Sorry i didnt check.

But you're right; it is not that big a deal, at least not to me, it's 
just that my (open) standards-fetisj was triggered that made me reply... :)

Alexander Belchenko schreef:
> 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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