On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 21:26 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> Until I start seeing kibibyte being used in the New York Times, or the
> prefered usage in the Chicago Manual of Style, the kibibyte is little
> more to me than an intriguing expression of pedantry. Yes, the
> existing usage is confusing and ambiguous. We don't fix that by
> picking new and relatively unknown terminology.

Django's existing practice would be considered a bug in Ubuntu:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy

I realize their policy isn't binding on you as upstream, but how would
you suggest they fix it?

Given that the filter can't know whether the application is using it for
disk, RAM, or files, I'd propose it be changed to use base-10 units to
get most cases right.

Richard

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