-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --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" > ? Did not think of that, that's better IMO. Apache can do this (the link I gave in a previous email is now returning "text/plain; format=lp; charset=us-ascii"). But this creates practical issues. My browser is not capable of assigning a specific helper to "text/plain; format=lp", say /usr/bin/qrfcview (i.e. different from "text/plain; format=fixed" which in my case would be assigned to /usr/bin/gvim). An Android app would have the same issue as I guess many other platforms. It is the display application that will have to use this parameter to select the display mode, so instead of having an additional program per platform that displays the text/lp type, we will need to modify all applications that can render text/plain so they can correctly interpret the format=lp parameter. > > (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. What would be missing is an indication that only a fixed font must be used. - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Personal email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professional email: petithug@xxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7SjXcACgkQ9RoMZyVa61ctQwCgp5s/U1a5h/8B1bUM+1iTY6P6 I2UAnRvf4qeSRwwmzBP3XRVX5raLMdcI =XIXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf