Re: Internationalization--Standard Conventions

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sat May 29 1999 - 21:49:35 EDT


"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote on 1999-05-30 01:26 UTC:
> Plus 1 K in computerese is actually 1.024 K anywhere else. Ah, don't get me
> started! :-)

As you might guess, I have been in such threads before. All my
accumulated knowledge about this topic, plus my nice solution as well as
a less nice proposed ISO/IEC solution to fix it, can be found in

  ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/information-units

If you read this text carefully, you'll find out, why this is still very
much related to Unicode (the suggested notation uses U+2082).

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>



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