Mime types - uppercase appearing in mime type names

[Jerome Leclanche]

Agreed. If the files are not lowercase, we could have conflicts (which we
actually do as you mentioned).


J. Leclanche


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>wrote:

> Almost all Mime types are named in lower case, e.g. image/png. However,
> there are a handful of MS office file formats that the freedesktop.orgdatabase uses the word 'macroEnabled', e.g.
>
> application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12
>
> The same type is also defined by LibreOffice, but in lowercase, i.e.
> macroenabled.
>
> I also see uppercase in audio/AMR, audio/AMR-WB and text/x-iMelody.
>
> RFC 2045 [1] says "The type, subtype, and parameter names are not case
> sensitive." I can flatten the case easily enough, but looking up the
> MEDIA/SUBTYPE.xml files on a case-sensitive filesystem gets tricky - I
> would have to keep a reference to the original spelling, just for those few
> cases.
>
> To simplify this, I think the shared mime-info spec should say that the
> media/subtype.xml files are always named in lowercase. Since the names are
> supposed to be case insensitive, it shouldn't create conflicts.
>
> update-mime-database should also merge mimetypes regardless of case - at
> present, I see separate media/subtype.xml files for the 'macroEnabled' and
> 'macroenabled' mimetypes.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045
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