If it's a proprietary format, it should be text/vnd.duxbury.brf or some such.
If it's an open format, text/brf is likely fine. It's worth noting I'm seeing references to text/plain encoding=brf... which doesn't seem correct. https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41240 J. Leclanche On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:54 PM, kendell clark <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > I can try contacting duxbury, but in my experience they're very ... > windows centric. I'd probably mention in my email that I want to improve > the "linux desktop" and at that point they'd lose all interest. But I'll > try anyway, I won't go off of assumption on this one. At least the brf > format is open, and has a dtd. Duxbury was, I thought, a very > proprietary company. I'm trying to find out if the brf format is > registered. I can't seem to find it, so I'm assuming not. Would the mime > type be something like text/braille? > Thanks > Kendell Clark > > > [email protected] wrote: >> Le Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Bastien Nocera a écrit : >>> Charles is wrong, you don't need to have them registered. In fact, the >>> "x-" prefix says it's not registered. >> Hi Bastien, >> >> I wrote "can be registered to the IANA", not "need to". I am sorry >> if it has been confusing. >> >> Registering to the IANA is a nice thing to do as it will benefit a broader >> audience than the users of XDG-compliant desktop environment. And indeed, as >> you wrote, this registration is often done by the creators of the file type. >> In the case of the "BRF" format, it seems to be "Duxbury systems". >> >> http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/dbt11.1/brf_files.htm >> >> Perhaps they would be pleased to do the registration if they were contacted >> by >> Kendell ? >> >> The IANA has recently became much more opened to registration of new types, >> to the point that they now discourage the use of "x-" prefixes. >> >> - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838#section-3.4 >> - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 >> >> I tested the new registration system myself, with >> application/vnd.debian.binary-package, and this media type made its way in >> shared-mime-info shortly after acceptance (thanks to the maintainer of >> Fedora's >> package "mailcap", who was faster than me to submit an update to you). So in >> case submission to the IANA seems to be doable, I think that it is the most >> beneficial way to go. >> >> Have a nice day, >> > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
