Almost all Mime types are named in lower case, e.g. image/png. However, there are a handful of MS office file formats that the freedesktop.orgdatabase uses the word 'macroEnabled', e.g.
application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12 The same type is also defined by LibreOffice, but in lowercase, i.e. macroenabled. I also see uppercase in audio/AMR, audio/AMR-WB and text/x-iMelody. RFC 2045 [1] says "The type, subtype, and parameter names are not case sensitive." I can flatten the case easily enough, but looking up the MEDIA/SUBTYPE.xml files on a case-sensitive filesystem gets tricky - I would have to keep a reference to the original spelling, just for those few cases. To simplify this, I think the shared mime-info spec should say that the media/subtype.xml files are always named in lowercase. Since the names are supposed to be case insensitive, it shouldn't create conflicts. update-mime-database should also merge mimetypes regardless of case - at present, I see separate media/subtype.xml files for the 'macroEnabled' and 'macroenabled' mimetypes. Thanks, Thomas [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045
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