Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility

[Julian Reschke]

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * 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

They never do, don't they?

> 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.

What exactly does that mean? That different parts of it have a different 
character encoding?

Best regards, Julian