[aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?

[Xavier]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks
> it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing
> me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/
>
> What did I do wrong there?
> The patch was created using:
> diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch
>

This is web server (lighttpd) setting again.
It's possible to specify that files with .diff or .patch extension are
actually of type text/plain and not application/octet-stream , but
this was not done.

I am not sure what you can do on the client / web browser side.