On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 20:15 +0200, David Verhasselt wrote: > Yes, but the fact is that there are apparently a lot of different > opinions on what should be used. Therefore why not agree to disagree, > and let the user decide what they want to use. Make a centralized system > that converts an arbitrary byte-count to the user's preferred way of > viewing it. That's where I got the locale analogy from. I know, it's > probably overkill to create a whole new API for just this, but perhaps > there is an API where you could add a simple function that does this to. > Maybe in GTK? > > Either way, a centralized system would help stop errorenous usage of > GiB, GB or Gb.
Don't we already do this for °C and °F? -- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/