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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: extragear/utils/filelight/src/part
From:       Bram Schoenmakers <bramschoenmakers () kde ! nl>
Date:       2006-08-30 10:05:53
Message-ID: 200608301206.05431.bramschoenmakers () kde ! nl
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Op dinsdag 29 augustus 2006 12:22, schreef Karl Ove Hufthammer:
> Stephan Kulow skreiv:
> >> > +static const char PREFIX[4]    = { 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T' };
> >>
> >> Just wondering, shouldn't these units be i18n()ified? Like it is now, it
> >> shouldn't be a big problem for the majority of the languages. But are
> >> there languages out there which use other symbols for them?
> >
> > I would think this would be very confusing - these prefixes are an
> > international standard.
>
> No, they're not. 'K' is not a prefix in any international standard.
> 'k', on the other hand, is one of the SI units, and means 1000 (never
> 1024). The prefix for 1024 is 'Ki', defined in IEC 60027-2. See
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

True, but the commit I responded to replaced Ki with K (because Ki just looks 
silly, according to the Filelight maintainer).

Kind regards,

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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