[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Sat May 13 14:30:23 PDT 2000



> 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.

My point is that once you're in the vorbis bitstream, there are no *byte* 
boundaries either.  The comment fields store 8 bit clean octets... but that 
doesn't mean those octets are even byte aligned in the stream.

So endianness and word length are non-concepts at the logical level.

Monty

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