French translation of the size of a folder or file is not correct

[Yann Papouin]

Binary package hint: language-pack-fr

In the french version of Dapper we can see all size translations with these unities: Kio, Mio Gio
But a Kio (kibibyte in english) is different from a Ko (kilobyte in english)
More information on : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte (english) or http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet (french)

As you can see on these pictures for the same folder, the unity used is not the same:

In FRENCH
http://ftpmerou.free.fr/ubuntu/gnome-size-fr.png

In ENGLISH
http://ftpmerou.free.fr/ubuntu/gnome-size-en.png

But the size announced is the same 480,5 M??

I think that the french translation is wrong because I have these results with the "du" command:

du -xhs .picasa
482M .picasa

du -xhs --si .picasa
505M .picasa

[BobMauchin (zebob.m)]

Hi,

With --si option, du reports the file size in kilobyte (1000x1000 octets), so du is reporting 505 megabyte (mégaoctet in french).
Without -si option, du reports the file size in kibibyte (1024x1024 octets), so du is reporting 482 mebibyte (mébioctet in french).

So the GNOME french translation is right : the file size is 480,5 Mio (mébioctet in french). The wrong version is the english one which should be 480,5 MiB (mebibyte).

Thanks for your bug report.

Bob Mauchin.

[Claude Paroz (paroz)]

Regarding Bob's explanation, I consider this bug can be rejected.