Bit or byte: "Fetching file %li of %li at %sb/s"

[Anton Shestakov]

I'm member of Ubuntu Russian Translators team and have noticed this:

"Fetching file %li of %li at %sb/s"

The "b/s" part of the message is ambiguous. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit) tells:

>No uniform agreement has been reached yet about what the official unit symbols for bit and byte should be.
>One commonly-quoted standard, the International Electrotechnical Commission's IEC 60027, specifies that "bit"
>should be the unit symbol for the unit bit (e.g. "kbit" for kilobit). In the same standard, the symbols "o" and "B" are specified for the byte.
>The other commonly-quoted relevant standard, IEEE 1541, specifies "b" to be the unit symbol for bit and "B" to be that for byte.
>[...]
>"b" is occasionally also used for byte, along with "bit" for bit.

Would you please clarify this situation? Either fix it in the message (something like "B/s") or, at least, give direct answer. Thanks!

[Endolith (endolith)]

Apparently it's kilobytes per second. :)