Re: "textual binary" MIME types (was Re: file locking and binary files)

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:36:06PM -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
> > Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk> writes:
> > > Are there any plans to make svn_mime_type_is_binary() more configurable,
> > > so that one can say "although this isn't text/*, I want to treat it that
> > > way anyway"? I appreciate that this is a corner case.
> >
> > For cases where we know the format is text anyway, maybe we should
> > just make svn_mime_type_is_binary() recognize that. Would it be a bad
> > thing if we changed svn_mime_type_is_binary() to return false for
> > `image/x-xbitmap'?
>
> +1. That's the correct solution.

In that case image/x-xpixmap should behave the same way.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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