[nixpulvis]

Yea I don't understand the issue here. SI is pretty clear, and this post explains the other standard a little bit.

It's really not all that crazy of a situation. What bothers me is when some applications call KiB KB, because they are old or lazy.

[reaperducer]

because they are old

I keep using "K" for kilobyte because it makes the children angry since they lack the ability to judge meaning from context.

[nixpulvis]

You sly dog.

[ZoomZoomZoom]

...old lazy and wrong! Capital K is for Kelvin.

[schiffern]

>Capital K is for Kelvin.

It should be "kelvin" here. ;)

Unit names are always lower-case[1] (watt, joule, newton, pascal, hertz), except at the start of a sentence. When referring to the scientists the names are capitalized of course, and the unit symbols are also capitalized (W, J, N, Pa, Hz).

[1] SI Brochure, Section 5.3 "Unit Names" https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...