[RESEND] [PATCH] Clean Up MIME Strings (was:

Thomas Leonard tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 17:06:57 EET 2004


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:45:29PM +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> On Mo, 2004-01-12 at 23:07 +0000, jirka at 5z.com wrote:
> > > "Scalable SVG image"
> > > "Medical DCM image"
> > 
> > Maybe
> >  "Scalable (SVG) image"
> >  "Medical (DCM) image"
> > 
> > That means the "technical" information is still there, but it's sort of
> > optional (parenthetical).
> 
> I don't like this at all. Having secondary text in brackets that break
> text flow is kinky.

Note that the original patch does this in several places, eg:

-    <_comment>Compressed Tar Archive</_comment>
+    <_comment>tar archive (compressed)</_comment>

I quite like the brackets, though I prefer them at the end "Scalable image
(SVG)", "Photographic image (JPEG)", etc


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