[Debian-handbook-translators] Binary size units or not?

[Raphael Hertzog]

You can go ahead with the change, it's OK for me.

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> In the web page text there are some sizes listed using Mb as the unit,
> see
> <URL: https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/debian-handbook/99_website/en/?checksum=5ece9d9fd9947cf2 >
> for an example.  I believe these really are sizes based on 1024 bytes,
> not 1000 bits, making the unit confusing.  Normally 'b' is bits and 'B'
> is bytes, and M is mega = ie 1000 * 1000, not 1024 * 1024.
> 
> I suggest to use the binary prefix units instead, as described in
> <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix >.
> 
> The Mb unit is also used in en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml as Mb/s,
> and here it is obviously used for bits, not bytes.
> 
> diff --git a/en-US/99_website.xml b/en-US/99_website.xml
> index 2eeb944e..1dc026bd 100644
> --- a/en-US/99_website.xml
> +++ b/en-US/99_website.xml
> @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
>        Click on the link of the version that you wish to download:
>      </para>
>      <itemizedlist>
> -      <listitem><para>English PDF (30 Mb)</para></listitem>
> -      <listitem><para>English EPUB (5 Mb)</para></listitem>
> -      <listitem><para>English Mobipocket (13 Mb)</para></listitem>
> +      <listitem><para>English PDF (30 MiB)</para></listitem>
> +      <listitem><para>English EPUB (5 MiB)</para></listitem>
> +      <listitem><para>English Mobipocket (13 MiB)</para></listitem>
>      </itemizedlist>
>    </section>
>  
> 
> Any objections, or should I just commit the change?
> 
> -- 
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
> 
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