col_type size

[Stan-librarian]

Hello,

I love this software. I use it in all my webapps and promoted it on my website. So thank you!

Anyway, I wonder if it could be possible to have a col_type "datasize" (or any other name, of course) to sort data like "8192 bytes", "120 kB", "17 MB"… correctly.

I don't know how hard it could be. I guess internationalization could be a problem (for example, in French you could have Mo (= "megaoctets") instead of MB) ; there would be also the problem of SI prefixes vs binary prefixes like Kio, Mio...

However, I think it could be useful.

What do you think of it?