--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin <petit...@acm.org> 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
