From kde-devel Thu Jul 09 19:18:14 2009 From: Thomas =?iso-8859-15?q?L=FCbking?= Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:18:14 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and Message-Id: <200907092118.14855.thomas.luebking () web ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=124716739325208 Am Thursday 09 July 2009 schrieb Michael Howell: > Which is exactly why we should use KiB. Let them choose traditional or EIC > KB, but let's use a sane and unambiguous measure by default. You're aware that this is what Michael (Pyne) is after all over the time?! Regards, Thomas ps: it's "IEC", the EIC (East India Company) would certainly be in favor of both: imperial and JEDEC suffixes (KB rather than kB, has issues with MB, GB. etc. - i know) pps: if anyone wonders: according to WP the USA are one out of three nations (liberia and myanmar - no wait: ceylon, no... hähhh ;-) are the others...) that have not officially accepted SI as sole or even primary system... =D ppps: i didn't want to enter this rather childish discussion (feeling offended? sorry, can't help), but while i'm at it - here my 2¢: - i'm perfectly fine with KiB (2^n) - i'm perfectly fine with KB (2^n) either - i'd be perfectly fine with kB (10^3) either, but... - ..i strongly object KB, and unfortunately MB, GB, TB (if we ever wanted to support 10^k we needed to stress that MUCH more) - "KiB" will likely trigger some bug reports from ppl. who not read here or elsewhere on this rather confusing topic - and it's certainly not me who'll explain that (i.e. whenever i'll get asked i'll answer: make a bug report) >-) -> therefore a soution that leaves us a runtime choice (between KiB and KB for 2^n) would likely be a smart idea pppps: can anyone explain "KiB" i mean: where's the relation to "binary" shouldn't it be "KbB" or "K2B" or (cooler) "K²B" (unfortunaltely i don't see an underscore 2 in ASCII - is there not better SI standard =D (scrn)) Regards again and "Everybody be cool. You! Be cool!" Thomas >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<