[Phpmyadmin-devel] byte units

Marc Delisle Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca
Mon Feb 20 04:24:12 CET 2006


Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> byte units are international, or not?

I don't think so.
> 
> why are this in the locale string files?

I had a look at
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9bioctet
and in French, MiB is Mio. For B they suggest o, mentionning also that there is 
a risk of confusion with the number 0. So I think I would stay with "octets" for 
B, but switch the other ones.

> 
> and i think we should use MiB instead of MB
> 
> and B instead of Bytes
> 
> 
Yes, in English and in other languages which do not have a language-specific 
abbreviation for those.

We could ask translators to check if their translations respect the new units 
defined in 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

but for PMA 2.9.0, ok? :)

Marc





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