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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Fri, 20 July 2012 11:21 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:22:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] Status of application/patch or text/patch?
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* 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?
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