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

[Paul Libbrecht <[e-mail]>]

Le 20 juil. 2012 à 22:49, Jon Moore a écrit :

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Erm... source charset makes sense to me (this is "the charset of the patch").
>> But target charset makes no sense into a media-type... this is "after applying a patch" which is beyond the scope of a single file.
> 
> No, the issue is that the patch file could have mixed charsets. If the
> change is 'convert README from iso-8859-1 to utf-8', then the patch
> file itself will have two character sets:
> 
> 1. The lines that begin with '-' or ' ' will be iso-8859-1.
> 2. The lines that begin with '+' will be utf-8.
> 
> Since these are incompatible charsets (neither is a superset of the
> other), we need two charset parameters to describe them, and this
> patch is not capable of being a text/* document. I'm open to other
> names besides 'source' and 'target', but I'm not sure how we get
> around having two of them for this case.

Thanks Jon,

that clarifies and makes sense.

I still believe you could ignore such a difference and expect the patch-application-engine to know the charset of its source and thus the normal (single) charset annotations would suffice.

Paul