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Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source



Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> This switch therefore means that attached scripts have to be saved and
>> opened separately rather than viewed directly inline in the mail
>> client, which is occasionally quite awkward.  Or, alternately, one has
>> to attach scripts as text/plain, thus losing the language information
>> that could otherwise be conveyed.  (There are some, although not many,
>> mail clients that, given proper MIME tagging of language information,
>> will do syntax highlighting of attached code.)

> I know that this is a pain in the ares, but actually one should then
> rather try to fix these clients ;-)

Given that they involve things like Outlook, good luck with that.  I have
other windmills against which I prefer to tilt.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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