Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

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--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin
<petithug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain
> ASCII.  They are technically in a special format that I would
> call "line-printer ready text file", and ASCII is the
> encoding, not the format.  What is needed is:
> 
> - - A mime-type for line-printer ready text (say text/lp)
> - - An heuristic to recognize text/lp files (it's too late for
> a specific extension).  Apache HTTP server can use the AddType
> directive for these files[1]. - - A program to display text/lp
> files, one at least for each platform.  If someone take care
> of the mime-type, I'll write the program to display correctly
> text/lp files on the Android platform.

Out of curiosity (and again my better judgment about getting
further involved in this discussion), why do you think

  text/lp
is needed and not
  text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=lp"
?

(please read RFC 3676 before answering -- it is not clear to me
that

   format="fixed" 

would not do as well, possibly supplemented by an additional
"line length" parameter.

best,
   john



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