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Bug 550203 - Ambiguous byte prefixes
Ambiguous byte prefixes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 512443
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-01 12:48 UTC by Geir Hauge
Modified: 2008-09-01 14:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Geir Hauge 2008-09-01 12:48:31 UTC 
The function g_format_size_for_display uses factors of 1024 to round sizes to a more human readable form. For this it uses prefixes K, M and G which are easily confused with SI prefixes. Wouldn't it be better to use the less ambiguous binary prefixes Ki, Mi and Gi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2008-09-01 13:14:55 UTC 
I would say NOTABUG since this has been discussed when introducing
the function:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-December/msg00237.html

and if i read that thread correctly we want to be human readable,
not hacker readable.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2008-09-01 14:33:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 512443 ***