[Phpmyadmin-devel] byte units

[Sebastian Mendel]

Marc Delisle wrote:
> 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? :)

for sure!


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