[vorbis] Re: (Classical) Request for Standardization of expanded TAGS

[John Morton]

On Monday 10 December 2001 12:51, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | One solution is, as you said, to treat whitespace at the end of field
> | values as padding, but it doesn't really help you when you want to add
> | and remove fields. Better to add a PADDING tag filled with white space
> | and remove and add space to that as necessary.
> | I'd propose it as a standard tag, but it's not meant to be human
> | readable, so I think I'll just added to a tag editor implementation at
> | some stage.
>
> Spaces aren't human readable?

More so than nulls :-) But one of the rules of thumb for deciding whether a 
new standard field is a good idea is 'will it look ok just dumped to 
stderr?', and if you decided to add 256 characters of padding so later on you 
could add everything from the liner notes including the name of the lead 
singer's cat, then all the interesting information is liable to scroll of the 
screen :-)

Still, as a potential standard field proposal goes, it's got a lot going fori 
it.

John

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