Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Rich Freeman wrote:

> Proposal 2
> "Whenever practical developers are required to use unit prefixes
> defined in IEC 80000-13 (KB, KiB, etc) so that output is unambiguous.
> This does not require maintainers to patch upstream code to change its
> behavior, but they should be applied with code that originates in
> Gentoo."

> This takes no stance on whether 1000 vs 1024 is preferred but still
> requires the new-style prefixes to remove ambiguity.  I strongly
> advocate that using "KB" to refer to 1024 bytes is a recipe for
> confusion, if only because everybody who attends a decent school comes
> out indoctrinated that kilo means something else.

+1

(Should be lower case k for kilo though, i.e. "kB" for 1000 bytes and
"KiB" for 1024 bytes.)

Ulrich