So would you be happy with kB -> 1,000 bytes, and KB -> 1024 bytes? Likewise
mB for 1,000,000 bytes and MB for 1048576 bytes?
Look, there's some precedent for it here:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictK.html
"K - an informal abbreviation for one thousand used in expressions where
the unit is understood, such as "10K run" (10 kilometers) or "700K disk"
(700 kilobytes or kibibytes). Note that "K" is also the symbol for the
kelvin (see below). Also note that the symbol for the metric prefix kilo-
(1000) is actually k-, not K-."
If you believe that, then we don't have a problem, we never did:
kB -> 1,000 bytes
KB -> 1024 bytes
So, KiB is a silly fix for a problem that doesn't exist. Let's not have that
silliness creeping into our documentation, making it look silly too.
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