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E.g. if we have text/html content and it gets pasted as text/plain, we may want to do the conversion somewhere in the middle (or not — need an option to control this). If we have an image/jpeg, we should also advertise image/png and use some converter under the hood, and so on.

Actually no, the least surprising way this could work is:

• For text formats such as HTML, wl-copy should always advertise the original text content, no matter the mime type, as text/plain, in addition to that mime type
  • This is unlike copying from a browser, where you'd expect text/plain and text/html to actually differ
• wl-paste should prefer pasting text/plain unless the mime type is explicitly specified with -t or inferred from the file we're pasting into
• wl-copy should attempt to do the conversion for binary types such as images and not offer text/plain at all

If we have an image/jpeg, we should also advertise image/png and use some converter under the hood, and so on.

Uhh, please no, image manipulation and conversion is way out of scope of simple console copy/paste utilities.