[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: byte units

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Michal Čihař wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:16:39 +0100
>> Sebastian Mendel <lists at sebastianmendel.de> wrote:
>>
>>> byte units are international, or not?
>>
>> They are, but can be written differently:
>>
>> $ grep byteUnits  lang/*utf* | grep -v EB
>> lang/arabic-utf-8.inc.php://$byteUnits = array('بايت', 'كيلوبايت', 
>> 'ميجابايت', 'غيغابايت');
>> lang/persian-utf-8.inc.php:$byteUnits = array('بايت', 'كيلوبايت', 'مگا 
>> بايت', 'گيگا بايت', 'ترابايت', 'پتا بايت', 'اگزا بايت');
>> lang/thai-utf-8.inc.php:$byteUnits = array('ไบต์', 'กิโลไบต์', 
>> 'เมกกะไบต์', 'กิกะไบต์', 'เทอราไบต์', 'เพตตะไบต์', 'เอกซะไบต์');
> 
> except this three all others seems just translated chars, the above are 
> just seems to be the unabbreviated writing
> 
> looking through different wikipedia pages (langs) makes me think that 
> this is not right!
> 
> http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%E9%80%B2%E6%8E%A5%E9%A0%AD%E8%BE%9E
> http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 
> 
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9fixe_binaire
> 
> http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%C3%A1rn%C3%AD_p%C5%99edpona
> ;-)
> 

So, the prefix (for example Mi) seems to be standard, but not the 
"thing" counted (for example bytes).

> 
> aso.
> 
> ... but we have to rely on the translators ...
> 
>