Re: Fun with svn:mime-type

Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:

>Karl Fogel wrote:
>
>
>>Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>
>>
>>>> * Is just adding the encoding to svn:mime-type the correct
>>>> * slution, or should I use it only as a temporary hack?
>>>> * Should we introduce a svn:encoding property instead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>No idea here; maybe Greg has an opinion.
>>>
>>>
>>I _think_ tacking the charcoding onto svn:mime-type is the thing to
>>do...
>>
>>
>
>Groooaaaaarr. I had this very same question back in the days of
>yore. What _I_ was told was _not_ to do it. Then we still had the
>"svn:encoding" property lying around unused. And the reasoning
>presented to me was:
>
>The svn:mime-type property is a MIME-type, not a Content-Type, hence
>it should not carry charset information.
>

:-) It's quite possible that I was one of the people telling you that we
should use svn:encoding. Sorry about that, and it looks like I'm well on
the way to changing my mind.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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