Litres and millilitres as lower case 'L'

[NickWeir63]

Oliver would like to change the unit display on the shopfront from 'L' to 'l' and from 'mL' to 'ml' please

[pmackay]

What's the rationale for this, out of interest?

I'm slightly wary of lowercase "l" being rather unclear.

Some points of reference:

This page on GOV.UK seems to use lowercase but with a space in front.

Ocado, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons all use uppercase L. Riverford use lowercase but their font makes it pretty clear. Able and Cole expand to the words, e.g. litres.

[stveep]

L is the S.I. unit :) but lower case is usually used for ml, cl etc. on drinks packaging, and even by us scientists! I guess the preference to use L or write litre in full is so that 2l is not confused with 21, for example.

Anyway, i think this would be best handled in i18n via t or l to accommodate local styles.

[OliverUK]

My reason is poorly aesthetical. You don't normally find grams abbreviated as G (100g /vs 100G) or centimeters as CM (nor cM or Cm) so L looks wrong and inconsistent.

[lin-d-hop]

Closing #gitcull2017