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From: | Sven Köhler |
Subject: | bug#47103: numfmt: invalid suffix 'k' |
Date: | Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:27:15 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
Not only --from=si is broken. Also --to=si is broken: $ numfmt --to=si 3000 3,0KIn order to not break backwards compatibility, you probably have to introduce a switch --lowercase-kilo such that --to=si produces proper SI compliant output. Then have --from=si accept both uppercase and lowercase k.
I have to say, that uppercause K is quite common, but it is not correct as far as SI prefixes are concerned.
Also note that Ki in iec-i mode is quite correct. I'm torn about iec mode. I believe that people silently switch 1000 for 1024 and use the lower case k as well as uppercase K. Maybe numfmt should have an option to accept/produce both here as well?
Is there really a standard/specification that allows k/K for 1024? Wikipedia only lists Ki as IEC prefixes.
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