[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[David Terrell]

Monty <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote:
>> Another nice effect is to eliminate endedness considerations, at
>> least in this one place.
> 
> This is already eliminated.  Vorbis is a true bitstream, and the mapping to an
> octet stream is well defined (in summary, least significant bit of least
> significant byte first).  All vorbis storage goes through this mapping.

And UTF-8 has no endian considerations, AFAIK.  UTF8 is 1) bit-compatible
with US-ASCII, 2) free of any endian concerns, and 3) translates perfectly
into Unicode.


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