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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>:
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
>  > Please tell me you're joking.
> 
> No, I'm serious.  I will understand if CML2 does not support
> meta-configuration.  A configuration choice as I described above could
> be viewed as a minor facet of a language configuration choice.
> (Should kernel configuration be internationalized or at least
> internationalizable?)
> 
> Choice of kB vs KB vs KiB vs KKB could also be used in some places in
> the kernel.  For instance, /proc/meminfo currently shows "kB".

What, and *encourage* non-uniform terminology?  No, I won't do that.
Better to have a single standard set of abbreviations, no matter how
ugly, than this.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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