hi Hmm, encoding=brf? That's odd. Do brf files have their own encoding? I'm not sure. I now need to get my hands on some keyWord braille and keyWord text files from a braille note to add support for those lol. Don't mind me, I run away with ideas sometimes. Thanks Kendell Clark
Jerome Leclanche wrote: > 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
