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...ing as, from he link I posted, text means "such [extra] software must not be required in order to get the general idea of the content", which is clearly not the case for kate, as text data is often not even byte aligned (something I've wondered about whether it'd be a good idea to autoalign actually, too late now though), and application is "some other kind of data, typically either uninterpreted binary data or information to be processed by a mail-based application." Of course, this is a layman's reading, so if you confirm text/x-kate would be correct for the binary bi...

...osted, text means "such [extra] software > must not be required in order to get the general idea of the content", > which is clearly not the case for kate, as text data is often not even byte > aligned (something I've wondered about whether it'd be a good idea to > autoalign actually, too late now though), and application is "some other > kind of data, typically either uninterpreted binary data or information to > be processed by a mail-based application." > > Of course, this is a layman's reading, so if you confirm text/x-kate would >...

> I'm testing this. Meanwhile, a brief question, do you really want > Kate's media type to be "application" as opposed to "text"? Thanks. About the media type, my understanding was that text was for actual text, not binary that could be decoded into text. If you think another would be more appropriate, please tell which. If it would be text/x-kate, I'd see