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

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On 11/27/2011 11:20 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> 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").

http://ietf.implementers.org/mime/rfc5928.txt now returns text/lp
http://ietf.implementers.org/format/rfc5928.txt now returns text/plain;format=lp

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Marc Petit-Huguenin
Personal email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Professional email: petithug@xxxxxxx
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