[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Monty]

> I believe UTF-8 presents its bytes in big-endian format.  So if ogg is using
> little-endian, there's bytesex mixing happening here. 

Ogg is 'littleendian', but not in the way you're arguing.  In Ogg, there are 
no octects.  There are no word boundaries.  There are only bits read in order.

If UTF-8 is octet based, and the octets are in a specific order, endianness is 
irrelevant. The behavior will not change due to the endianness of the host.

Eh, anyway, this boils down to a semantic, not practical, argument :-)  Looked 
at from different angles, the argument that implicit endianness conversions 
are happening is justifiable.  But it's still the case that there aren't any 
details that are going to bite.

Monty

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