On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Nicolas Williams wrote: > Ienup brought up that question. > > This is definitely in the realm of L10N. So new items for > nl_langinfo(3C) seem to be in order.
If we define the function to /strictly/ be SI, which all the world recognises and uses so a reasonable constraint, then there'd no localisation issues for prefix symbols. That would mean we need Kibi / 'Ki', Mibi / 'Mi', etc.. for the 2**(10*n) prefixes. Which would be a good thing too. --paulj
