#8733: filesizeformat filter units unclear
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Reporter: akaihola | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone: post-1.0
Component: Template system | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords:
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by Daniel Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
@Semmel: The SI version is the decimal scale. IEC is the binary scale.
It's not "plain" wrong to display the binary scale with the decimal units:
Windows does this and it's Wikipedia policy too. Wikipedia editors
reckoned that it was more important to be understood by the ignorant than
to be unambiguous.
However, the correct format for file sizes is the SI scale. Only
addressable space should be measured with the IEC scale. You have modified
the file size function in exactly the wrong way for formatting file sizes:
it is neither correct nor has historical precedent.
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