Re: Units of measurement conflict

[Nicolás Satragno <nsatragno gmail com>]

El 27/03/12 15:04, Andre Klapper escribió:
> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 14:57 -0300, Nicolás Satragno wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > There seems to be an issue regarding units of measurement in some
> > applications such as Nautilus. Please check this screenshot:
> > http://i.imgur.com/H4g7z.png (it's in Spanish, but that won't be a problem).
> > Although 1.0 MiB (Binary byte, 1.024 MB) is shown, the file is actually
> > 1 MB (One decimal byte) long. This issue was introduced by the Spanish
> > team, which translated MB into MiB. They are aware of this issue. It
> > seems that some time ago, the developers were calling MB what we call
> > MiB, but not now anymore. I'd like to know if there is a standard
> > agreement of which measurement system should be used.
> > This way, we'll know if we should translate MB into MiB or MB.
> This topic was covered by Ryan in
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2012-January/msg00095.html :
>
> "TL;DR: If you disagree with how something is written in the English
> string, please file a bug against the relevant component.  Never use
> translation as a way to 'fix' bugs or change something that you disagree
> with."
>
> So please translate MB as MB and MiB as MiB.
>
> Thanks,
> andre
I'm glad to say the Spanish team carried out the changes in the po files 
successfully.
Thanks for the tip.
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Nicolás Satragno <nsatragno gmail com>