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@MachinisteWeb MachinisteWeb commented Sep 16, 2017

We just see the « ko » for « kilo-octet » become « kB » for « kilo-byte » in english.

« kb » means « kilobit » that it's not correct.
— Source : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kB
— Source : https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/kB

That's cause an issue from french documentation where someone said us « hey, you'll should not translate “kb” by “ko” because it's height time more bigger ! »

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I believe we're actually measuring sizes in KB (1024 bytes) as opposed to kB (1000 bytes), but I agree kb (all lowercase) is technically wrong, as I think it implies bits. 🙂 What would you think about standardizing on KB?

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MachinisteWeb commented Sep 18, 2017

Thx! It's a new thing I learn thanks to you!

It's just because for french people usage of « ko (kB) » is the norm (and I just see there is a « Kio (KB) » equivalent I have never seen before).

It's you that know the best usage! KB or kB no matter for me :)

20 480KB or 20 000kB will always done “20kb min+gzip Runtime” so we don't care ;)_

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Oh my bad, I forgot to change kB in KB (to be more precise, I thinking you'll doing that).

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