Re: [ietf-types] Status of application/patch or text/patch?

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2012-07-20 13:22, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2012-07-20 12:38, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> * It can deal with diff's of files with different character sets,
>>>     e.g. converting ISO-8859-1 files to UTF-8.  Like the draft says now,
>>>     the text/* approach is unable to deal with this.
>>
>> I don't see that the problem is.
>>
>>  From a media type of view, the patch consists on instructions how to
>> patch certain lines in a text file. So to make this work properly, the
>> encoding of both the patch and the file-to-be-patched need to be known,
>> but they don't need to be the same.
>
> So, if you have a patch file that turns a ISO-8859-1 encoded file into
> a UTF-8 encoded file, what would be "the encoding" of the patch file?

Always these trick questions :-)

So do you believe we need a variant that is encoding-agnostics except 
for CRLF detection?

Best regards, Julian