I've filed a bug about this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9562
It's against xdgmime, as there doesn't seem to be a component for the shared-mime-info spec. It would need both a (small) spec change and a code change. Thomas On 15 March 2013 23:22, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <tho...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >> >> >
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