Sven Neumann skrev: > Could you please point me to this discussion?
No, since I was just guessing. > Might be more correct, but I don't think it would be more appropriate. > While kB, MB and GB are common and well-known abbreviations, KiB, MiB, > GiB and the like are not widely used and would confuse most users. I > even had to look this up on Wikipedia because I don't think I've ever > seen MiB and GiB being used anywhere. You are correct, it's more correct but maybe not appropriate. As I translator, I have started to notice that more and more applications start to use this new convention. For the beginning I was a bit negative but started to like it more and more. But yes, it might be confusing for some people. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 (as you can see, this is for recommended use) -- Daniel Nylander (CISSP, GCUX, GCFA) http://www.DanielNylander.se Stockholm, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
