Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Jonathan Blandford]

Billy Biggs <vektor at dumbterm.net> writes:

> Jonathan Blandford (jrb at redhat.com):
> 
> > > I would suggest not to use a semi-colon as a delimiter in the list,
> > > since this is used to supply parameters in a MIME type as described
> > > in RFC2045.  Instead, why not use a comma-separated list to follow
> > > the convention of protocols like HTTP?
> > 
> > For better or worse, the current list deliminator in .desktop files is
> > ';'.  You are right though, it is a potential problem.  Given the wide
> > deployment of desktop files, I think we'd probably prefer to escape
> > ';' in lists rather than change the deliminator.
> 
>   While this is unfortunate, it does seem reasonable to leave it as a
> semi-colon.  A standard method of escaping should probably be presented,
> I would suggest following HTTP and using % HEX escaping (%3B I guess).

We already do string-style escaping there ('\n', '\\', '\t', etc).
While it's a little non-traditional, we can just do \; in lists.

-Jonathan