(registered 2025-04-17, last updated 2025-04-17)

Media type name: application

Media subtype name: texinfo

Required parameters: N/A

Optional parameters: N/A

Encoding considerations: 8bit

The format has its own tagging for charset used, but normally this is UTF-8 today.

Security considerations: The GNU Texinfo format is a documentation format. Care must be taken to implement a parser that it is not vulnerable to security problems as a result of parsing the file format.

Interoperability considerations: There is only one main implementation, GNU texinfo, to the submitter/contact's knowledge.

Published specification: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Info-Format-Specification

Applications which use this media: Usually e-mail clients when attaching documents on that format.

Fragment identifier considerations: N/A

Restrictions on usage: N/A

Additional information:

1. Deprecated alias names for this type: x-texinfo
2. Magic number(s): N/A
3. File extension(s): .texi, .texinfo
4. Macintosh file type code: N/A
5. Object Identifiers: N/A

Person to contact for further information:

1. Name: Simon Josefsson
2. Email: simon&josefsson.org

Intended usage: COMMON

It has been widely used as text/x-texinfo for many years if not decades

Author/Change controller: GNU