[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Daniel Phillips]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote:
> 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.

I believe UTF-8 presents its bytes in big-endian format.  So if ogg is using
little-endian, there's bytesex mixing happening here.  Not that I think it's
particularly important, it's just an ugly fact of life.


-- 
Daniel

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