(re-adding bug-coreutils again)
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Francky Leyn wrote:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html specifies "Ki" as the symbol
for kibi-.
Is this NIST standard acknowledged by ISO, ANSI or others?
From the webpage: "The complete citation for this revised standard is
IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols to be used in
electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics."
I don't know enough about the various standards bodies to say whether
they incorporate, acknowledge or merely reference each other's work.
Perhaps it is a good idea to allow 2 letter prefixes for the kibi and
others, triggered by for example the --NIST option?
I doubt that the effort is worthwhile, although anyone is welcome to
submit a patch for the maintainer's consideration (N.B. I am not the
coreutils maintainer).
I suspect that the average user who understands the difference between
the suffixes also knows how to obtain their preferred output, and that
others suffice with the defaults; --human-readable is arguably not a
request for a high degree of precision.
Cheers,
Phil
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