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Add IEC format for digital units

Miguel Rincon requested to merge 201999-add-iec-digital-formats into master

What does this MR do?

The IEC recommends using binary scales with the units.

This MR adds IEC style format for digital units, such as KiB and MiB in addition to kB and MB which use decimal.

Old bytes decimal format is renamed to decimalBytes, while bytes rightfully switches to binary unit scale.

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Related #201999 (closed)

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