[BUG] The SI unit "kB" is incorrectly written

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Description

I would like to display sizes in SI units kB, MB, GB, etc. instead of KiB, MiB, GiB. I execute fastfetch --help size-binary-prefix to see what options are available, but I find that the help-information is not correct: the SI unit "kB" is incorrectly written as "KB":

$ fastfetch --help size-binary-prefix
Set the binary prefix to used when formatting sizes
     Usage: --size-binary-prefix <enum>
   Default: IEC
   Options:
         IEC: 1024 Bytes = 1 KiB, 1024 KiB = 1 MiB, ...
          SI: 1000 Bytes = 1 KB, 1000 KB = 1 MB, ...
       JEDEC: 1024 Bytes = 1 kB, 1024 kB = 1 MB, ...

Note that "K" is not an SI prefix, so "KB" does not make sense in SI.

However, the size of a disk can be still correctly shown (with fastfetch --size-binary-prefix SI): "kB" is used. (I use a tiny disk so that it is < 1000 kB big.)

(I attach a screenshot in the section entitled "Screenshots".)

Version used

fastfetch 2.37.0 (x86_64)

Bug prevalence

Always

Regression

Not sure

Installation

Package manager

Package manager

winupg

Screenshots

Configuration

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Features built-in

threads
vulkan
imagemagick7
zlib
opencl

[CarterLi]

Nice catch