Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Julian Reschke wrote:
>They never do, don't they?

Well, some formats at least have well-defined and working defaults, or
allow you to specify the encoding; neither is true with diff and patch
formats.

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

Yes, that's not uncommon with this kind of format. Think "I converted
the README from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, see the attached patch".
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