binary/text flags

[jonathanong]

would be nice, especially for mime types that aren't text/. i want to know if i could treat a file as a string. might be able to get rid of charset as well.

[Fishrock123]

Keep in mind that this isn't a flag for compressibility: tarballs are well known to work well with gzip.

[Fishrock123]

Also note that partial text / binary files do exist.

[jonathanong]

what would ew call this field? encoding? some values:

• text
• binary
• ['text', 'binary']?

[dougwilson]

representation?

[jonathanong]

i'm wondering how we would name this field and how to represent all the possible values as @Fishrock123 stated

[dougwilson]

i meant representation as a possible name, haha. sorry, was on a phone at that time, so didn't want to type a lot

[jonathanong]

oh. that's not what i think of when i read "representation".

[jonathanong]

so shall we use representation or what? i think it should be encodings or something. otherwise, we can delay this until after v1 since it shouldn't break anything

[mdedetrich]

+1

Just stating it would be incredibly handy for our webserver if we can differentiate whether a file has binary support or not.

Also confirming that compressable and binary are not related

Also happy with representation as a name

[dougwilson]

I'm implementing this and going with encoding as the name, as it's what the IANA database uses.

[Fishrock123]

Sounds good. But then is should be the actual encoding, not just binary / text.

Edit: oh, right, that doesn't make much sense for text.

Edit2: wrong damn button

[dougwilson]

Darn the registry is so old, lol. SO many say 8bit or 7bit because of email and stuff.

[dougwilson]

Apparently they come from ye olde RFC 1341, which specifies them as this:

• base64
• quoted-printable
• 7bit "[...] means that the data is all represented as short lines of US-ASCII data."
• 8bit "[...] means that the lines are short, but there may be non-ASCII characters (octets with the high-order bit set)"
• binary "[...] means that not only may non-ASCII characters be present, but also that the lines are not necessarily short enough for SMTP transport"

[Fishrock123]

wow, real useful lol

[dougwilson]

So I think what I'm going to do is export a encoding property that is either "text" or "binary". If someone really wants to know about the above, we can always export a transferEncoding property or some such.

[DutchBoyScowden1]

      Also note that partial text / binary files do exist.

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