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Bug#293897: marked as done ("kB" should be "Kb")

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:21:02 +0200
with message-id <20150814101921.GA9490@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#293897: "kB" should be "Kb"
has caused the Debian Bug report #293897,
regarding "kB" should be "Kb"
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.1
Severity: minor

APT has lines like

  Need to get 1634kB/1636kB of archives.

all over. The "kB" is somehow camel-cased. First, Kilo should be
capitalised (the metric system capitalises all modifiers > 1, and
all modifiers < 1 are lower-case), and second, there is no reason
why "Bytes" should be capitalised.

Please change that to "Kb" whenever is convenient for you.

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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:23:05PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> APT has lines like
> 
>   Need to get 1634kB/1636kB of archives.
> 
> all over. The "kB" is somehow camel-cased. First, Kilo should be
> capitalised (the metric system capitalises all modifiers > 1, and
> all modifiers < 1 are lower-case), and second, there is no reason
> why "Bytes" should be capitalised.
> 
> Please change that to "Kb" whenever is convenient for you.

Lower case k and upper case B is the most correct way to do
this, as the k means kilo, which is lower-case; and the B mean
bytes which is upper case to avoid confusion with bits, and is
the historic standard for MB and friends.

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