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Bug 654996 - units and format policy (SI units etc)
units and format policy (SI units etc)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
: 309850 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-20 19:24 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified: 2021-07-05 10:54 UTC
See Also:
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Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-07-20 19:24:01 UTC 
In the interests of "normal humans" I just modified GLib to strongly suggest a units policy based on SI.  In particularly, I added this string to the developer documentation:

IEC units should only be used for reporting things with a strong "power of 2" basis, like RAM sizes or RAID stripe sizes.  Network and storage sizes should be reported in the normal SI units.


Language along these lines should definitely be present in the HIG.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-09-26 17:35:34 UTC 
*** Bug 309850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Allan Day 2014-09-26 17:38:18 UTC 
I think it would make sense to add this as a larger section on units and formats, probably to the writing style page.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 10:54:03 UTC 
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