[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-4724) Need to add text/markdown

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TIKA-4724:
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ec1oud opened a new pull request, #2806:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/2806

   text/markdown has been the IANA-registered media type for Markdown since RFC 7763 (March 2016). freedesktop's shared-mime-info has used it as the primary type for years, with text/x-markdown as an alias. Consumers that fall back to Tika's bundled database when no system shared-mime-info is installed (e.g. Qt on macOS and Windows) cannot currently resolve text/markdown and silently drop the type from filter lists.
   
   Promote text/markdown to the primary type and keep Tika's historical text/x-web-markdown together with freedesktop's text/x-markdown as aliases, so existing lookups continue to resolve. Update the comment to match freedesktop's wording.
   
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> Need to add text/markdown
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-4724
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4724
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mime
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.0
>            Reporter: Shawn Rutledge
>            Priority: Major
>
> [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html] says "text/markdown" is the right mime type for markdown, but Tika has it only as text/x-web-markdown.  This causes some trouble in Qt on platforms where we use Tika as our mime type database:  [https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qfiledialog.html#setMimeTypeFilters] is used to map mime types to name.extension filters for a file dialog.  The user expects to use "text/markdown" as the mime type for markdown, and on platforms that have independent mime databases (such as Linux), that works: the result is "*.md" shows up as one of the file filters for the dialog (along with whatever alternative extensions).  On macOS though, it doesn't, because there we use tika, and it expects text/x-web-markdown.
> The Qt bug is [https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-146675] and maybe we can fix it in Qt for now; but we periodically sync the tika database, so it can easily come up again if it's not fixed upstream.



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