Closed Bug 140898 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

kilobyte should be abbreviated as kB, not KB

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

DEC
OpenVMS
defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: munk, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS Digital_Personal_WorkStation_; en-US;
rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020416
BuildID:    2002041609

According to the international standards, kilo is always abbreviated as "k"
(lowercase), not as "K" (uppercase). For Mega and Giga however the uppercase
symbols "M" and "G" are used.

For byte a capital "B" is used, for bit a lowercase "b". (so that's ok !)

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Visible on screen
This bug contradicts bug 124336.
k means exactly 1000. While the correct term in computer terms would have been
KiB, it's a standard noone use. KB is decided as second best. 
Please join the discussion in mentioned bugs if there are sides to this that
needs clarification.

Resolving as invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Verified - KB.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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