Re: Word Document mime type
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:02:16 +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Hello, I'm using up-to-date Debian Sarge and notice the following
> "problem": my .doc documents are not longer recognized by Nautilus as
> application/msword, but as application/vnd.ms-word, which leads to the
> fact that no application or icon is associated with it, while
> application/msword are.
The correct MIME type for Word files is application/msword (see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword), unlike
several other Microsoft formats (e.g. Excel) which had their MIME types
assigned after the introduction of the "vnd.*" convention.
shared-mime-info's /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml is wrong in
this regard; an upstream bug report covering this issue already exists:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=673
Ray
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