[vorbis-dev] 0x0d 0x0a in comment field contents

[Michael Smith]

At 02:10 PM 8/28/01 +1000, you wrote:
>This raises an interesting question that is not covered in the comment spec.
>For multiline comments, what is the preferred format? The DOS style \r\n, or
>the unix style \n comments? Or is it a case of applications should be able
>to read both formats?
>
>At the moment the winamp plugin writes the DOS style new lines in the
>comments.

I would suggest that multiline comments should be strongly discouraged - but
not made impossible. Newlines should be either \n, or the unicode newline
marker (no, I can't remember the codepoint used for it, but it DOES exist).

Michael

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