Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility

[Simon Josefsson]

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi at gmx.net> writes:

> * Julian Reschke wrote:
>>Well, I18N would be part of the media type registration (as far as I 
>>know, diff files do not carry character set information, so the only way 
>>to specify it would be through the charset parameter).
>
> I am not sure it would be wise to attempt that. The diff files do not
> typically say which encoding they use, and they might not use a single
> encoding at all (if you switch from one encoding to the other and sub-
> mit a diff to a mailing list, if you have a patch file making changes
> to multiple files in different encodings), it's not likely that there
> will be any encoding specified at all. It might then be better to use
> it as text-like binary type.

It seems to me that text files in general have some of these concerns
too, and that the concerns apply to text/plain as well.

Btw, Gnus supports application/x-patch too (but not, incidentally,
application/x-diff).  We may standardize application/patch then?

/Simon