What Mime Type should I use for BASIC code?

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What is the mime type for BASIC code? I searched the interwebs but found nothing... maybe application/basic, or text/basic, or..? Visual Basic, or QBasic, any should do. I'm trying to get my ViewVC setup to do syntax highlighting for .bas files... at the moment I've set .bas as text/plain so no syntax highlighting occurs, but I'd rather have it if I can.

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Have you tried vbscript style configuration? Or vb.net? Maybe this helps. I don't know if it's correct to call this "mime type", cause all of this is I think text/plain. - statosdotcom
Officially, it's just text/plain. It's likely too much of a hassle to denote Apple BASIC vs. Microsoft QuickBASIC vs. C64 BASIC vs. Liberty Basic vs. Visual Basic in terms of media types; their syntax is varied enough to warrant completely different media types. Even the Google Prettify library only supports a reasonable subset of BASIC code and VB specifically. Maybe you can create your own highlighting? I've never used ViewVC, so I don't know. - user539810
I thing you got it: try to create your own style configuration. If ViewVC doesn't allow you, contact the devs! Every piece of soft can be upgraded by community needs and efforts like yours ;) - statosdotcom

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It depends if you are trying to save in a other-program-readable format or in the qbasic format - at least in QB64.

If you are saving it readable for other programs, text/plain is correct. Otherwise, it would be application/octet-stream.