GiB and MiB non standard symbols

[Sandra Farnedi]

GParted uses GiB and MiB instead of GB and MB which are the standard symbols. See attachment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gparted 0.11.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Wed Apr 25 15:44:34 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/988330

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

is surely a dup, but I think is time to fix it

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

MiB and GiB are the standard symbols these days for the power of 2 units.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Ops, sorry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
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[Sandra Farnedi (sandra-farnedi-d)]

Il giorno mer, 25/04/2012 alle 19.12 +0000, Phillip Susi ha scritto:
> MiB and GiB are the standard symbols these days for the power of 2
> units.

Oh, sorry: you are quite right. I didn't know the existence of GibiByte
and MebiByte. Now I know.
Thanks