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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#17276: KB (short for kilobyte) should be kB
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-12-18 19:24:47
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http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-look&m=97716445909780&w=2

has some relevant info.

Rich.

Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> 
> On Monday 18 December 2000 13:26, Richard Moore wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is actually applicable - kilobytes are not
> > SI units. Given that 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes not 1000, the
> > capitalisation is the least of the problems!
> >
> > I don't think we've standardised this sort of thing yet, but
> > I guess it should be included in the look and feel guidelines
> > somewhere. I'm cc'ing this to kde-look for comment.
> 
> Though this is a good reasoning, how would you deal with mega-byte
> and giga-byte then ?  I know mega and giga are not SI units but from the
> consistency point of view it seems to be a straight shot to make all of them
> the same.  I think that is reason why kB was also expressed as such.  IIRC,
> I did this myself unless someone changed it after me after some discussion
> a long time back when KIO was first being done (might be dreaming about this).
> 
> Regards,
> Dawit A.

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