Dynamic file size ("b" instead of "B")

[alik]

Hi,

1) go to Options - Tab Stops - Size display - dynamic (x k/M/G)
2) Find a file which is smaller than 1kB
3) See, that the size suffix is "b", even a number of bytes is shown.

Expected: "B" is the right shortut for "bytes", because "b" means "bites".

Valid for 6.56, 7.0 RC3.

[Sir_SiLvA]

1) OH NO! Not again
pls use the search
then learn to edit your languagefiles for yourself

[alik]

1) OH NO! Not again

Heh, I am sorry...

[alik]

pls use the search

Would you provide me please with the link? I can't find it. Thanks.

[karlchen]

Good evening, alik.

I assume one of the threads which Sir_SiLvA had in mind was this one: proper (standardized) file size symbols?.

There is a German thread as well: KiloByte = 1024 Byte? (If you do not understand German, then do not worry, no argument that was not brought up in the English thread as well)

Karl

[alik]

Hi,

thank you for the link.

My report is slightly different. I am not complaining about the difference between "Mi" and "M" (which is really misused widely); but about "b" and "B", which does mean something different even we are only in the computer world. I hope you understand the difference.

[petermad]

There seem to some confusion about b an B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit#Abbreviation.2Fsymbol

[alik]

There seem to some confusion about b an B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit#Abbreviation.2Fsymbol

Maybe it has not been officially standardized yet, but it is more-or-less standard (see http://www.bisnotb.com/, which is linked from the same section as you have linked to).

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm sorry but I prefer to keep it as it is now.