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@@ -456,11 +456,11 @@ with ``bytes.decode(encoding)``. However, the manual approach is not recommende
One problem is the multi-byte nature of encodings; one Unicode character can be
represented by several bytes. If you want to read the file in arbitrary-sized
-chunks (say, 1k or 4k), you need to write error-handling code to catch the case
+chunks (say, 1024 or 4096 bytes), you need to write error-handling code to catch the case
where only part of the bytes encoding a single Unicode character are read at the
end of a chunk. One solution would be to read the entire file into memory and
then perform the decoding, but that prevents you from working with files that
-are extremely large; if you need to read a 2GB file, you need 2GB of RAM.
+are extremely large; if you need to read a 2 GiB file, you need 2 GiB of RAM.
(More, really, since for at least a moment you'd need to have both the encoded
string and its Unicode version in memory.)