Name: sdR10048 Date: 12/04/2000


The doc for java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor says:

public static final DataFlavor selectBestTextFlavor(DataFlavor[] availableFlavors)

     Selects the best text DataFlavor from an array of DataFlavors. Only
     DataFlavor.stringFlavor, and equivalent flavors, and flavors that
     have a primary MIME type of "text", are considered for selection. If
     the array contains stringFlavor , or an equivalent flavor (a
     serialized java.lang.String ), then this flavor is selected. Flavors
     having "text" as their primary MIME type are sorted by their
     secondary MIME type in the following order: "plain", "calendar",
     "css", "directory", "rfc822-header", "tab-separated-values",
     "uri-list", "richtext", "enriched", "rtf", "html", "xml", "sgml". For
     example, "text/sgml" will be selected over "text/html", and
     "text/enriched" will be selected over "text/richtext". If there are
     two or more text flavors with the best MIME subtype in the array,
     their charsets are compared. Unicode charsets, such as "UTF-16",
     "UTF-8", "UTF-16BE" and "UTF-16LE", are considered best. After them,
     platform default charset is selected. "US-ASCII" is worst. All other
     charsets are chosen in alphabetical order.
     Parameters:
         availableFlavors - an array of available DataFlavors
     Returns:
         the best (highest fidelity) flavor in an encoding supported by
         this implementation of the Java platform, or null if none can be
         found.

And there is a typo in the list of the secondary MIME types:

..."plain", "calendar", "css", "directory", "rfc822-header",
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"tab-separated-values", "uri-list", "richtext", "enriched", "rtf",
"html", "xml", "sgml".

String "rfc822-header" should be replaced with "rfc822-headers".
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