CCleaner more readable

Hello dears!!

Just a very little but useful suggestion to get the app more clear and understandable:

I saw after a cleaning it reports the results as

384Mb removed

Should be nice to read

384 Mb removed.

Note that happen on my own Language (italian), in the english version the app report is OK.

Tks in advance!!

CCleaner is correct. There should be no space between a value and a unit of measurement.

Actually, I disagree.

If the unit of measure is an abbreviation there should be a space. example 100 megabytes is abbreviated to 100 MB.

If measure is a symbol, say per cent, then it's written 100%, but the long hand would be 100 per cent.

However - there seems to be a general trend in computer measurements to leave the space out. wrongly or rightly.

That's the beauty of English - the point is still communicated, and that's what counts.

I bet you 5 $ that this sentence looks odd.

Actually, I disagree.

If the unit of measure is an abbreviation there should be a space. example 100 megabytes is abbreviated to 100 MB.

If measure is a symbol, say per cent, then it's written 100%, but the long hand would be 100 per cent.

However - there seems to be a general trend in computer measurements to leave the space out. wrongly or rightly.

That's the beauty of English - the point is still communicated, and that's what counts.

There seems (via browsing) to be no continuous usage rule

on one hand http://grammar.quick...of-measure.aspx tends to agree with MTA here as does Nokia

However yahoo agrees with The webatom http://styleguide.ya...s/units-measure (roll down a bit to the computer section), and give a pretty dern convincing case

Shane,

as I said, if it's a symbol, there's no space, so $5 is correct.

if you were to write "he gave her 5 dollars" that is also correct.

you were using a symbol as an abbreviation but it doesn't matter - the point was still communicated.

it doesn't matter to me how odd it looks, or even if it's wrong or right.

that's my point, for me, grammar correctness might be nice and was certainly drummed into me at school but who really cares as long as the message receiver understands the message. :)

Edit: what we need is access to a Teacher !

New topic; why does CCleaner use 'megabyte' when 'mebibyte' is less ambiguous?

a'ight kids nuff said,

to the original poster the developers read all threads so they'll have seen it :)

well supermatico, look what you have started.

i) a debate on a space.

ii) changing MB to MiB

stay tuned for future versions to see what the Dev Team does....

i) a debate on a space.

I would argue that it's big.

stay tuned for future versions to see what the Dev Team does....

They could silently change everything to bytes that way every cleaning would seem like it took away too much. :lol:

well supermatico, look what you have started.

i) a debate on a space.

ii) changing MB to MiB

stay tuned for future versions to see what the Dev Team does....

Men in Black? :D

Sorry... couldn't resist. I'll stop now.