Re: [irsg] how to upload minutes in markdown format?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-08-02, at 18:16, Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> I don't get it. The problem isn't with the bits in the file.

There is more than one problem.

> The problem is that MacOS insists on reporting that a .md file has content type octent-stream. IIUC, if it would simply report it as text/plain then all wood be ok.

The content-type is sent by the browser.
We probably have different browsers, and nobody takes care of reporting which browser is being used when things fail.

I have never been able to get any of my browsers to upload the right media type (text/markdown), so I can’t help with that part.
They all do send text/plain (well, Chrome sometimes text/html).

To get there, you probably have to open a directory with an .md file in it in Finder, single-click that file, and CMD-I.
Choose a markdown presentation application (I use Marked) or text editor (Geany?) of your choice under “open with”, then click “change all”.

All that said, I stand by my recommendation for keeping sanity:
Get “Raw HTML” from CodiMD and upload that.

> Lacking a fix for that problem, can we have datatracker recognize .md.txt as indicating an intent to upload markdown? The tools are already doing a workaround by recognizing .md as markdown even though the actual content type being sent is text/plain.

Sounds good to me.  

You'll still will have the problem with different interpretation of line breaks about which there was some discussion at tools-discuss; the little tool de-gfm was written as a workaround until the Great Unified Datatracker Markdown Solution is implemented.

Grüße, Carsten