Even if we can't can we think of better names?
"kibibyte" sounds like a dog treat not a unit of measurement.
"kibibyte" sounds like a dog treat not a unit of measurement.
eg. Long Kilobytes, LKB or KKB
The best I've seen is just to have the base as a subscript, like `kB_2` (2 is subscript) or `kB_10`. Though in practice I have yet to come across a situation where the difference a) matters and b) isn't clear from the context.
So perhaps a terabyte could be a "bin fourty", or a "two-to-fourty", etc. (Although as it linguistically relaxes into Tootafortie, it'll sound goofy too.)
You're saying that units-of-10 in English (and using Arabic numerals) will "not work" for other languages, when the international status-quo we're complaining about is already powers-of-1000 in Greek which are then mutated with Latin?
Why do you think there's a (new) problem?