Hi all, was a private conversation, but might be worthy a discussion:
> Oliver Albers wrote: >> >>is there a convention I am currently unaware of concerning the use of >>size prefixes like M, G, Mi, Gi? > > As far as I know, there's no convention about that. > But it seems that we are using not KiB/MiB/GiB but KB/MB/GB. > > en/features/file-upload.xml:522:/* Read the data 1 KB at a time > en/reference/apc/ini.xml:184: The size of each shared memory segment in > MB. > en/reference/filesystem/functions/fgets.xml:62: If the majority of the > lines in the file are all larger than 8KB, > en/reference/filesystem/functions/filesize.xml:23: are larger than 2GB. > For files between 2GB and 4GB in size this can usually > en/reference/imap/functions/imap-set-quota.xml:33: > <parameter>quota_limit</parameter> is the maximum size (in KB) for > en/reference/zlib/ini.xml:69: (default is 4KB). > en/reference/pdo_pgsql/functions/PDO-pgsqlLOBCreate.xml:25: Large objects > can be up to 2GB in size, but are cumbersome to use; you need > > Sorry but I have not known about that, and have thought it's just a > typo. I revert the last change later. So, the manual is inconsistent about when to use the more common MB instead of the IEC MiB. Don't we care about it and keep it the way it is or do we uniformly start to use MiB, KiB. I guess that would require some definition in the manual as those terms are not quite as well known as MB and KB. Olli
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