[vorbis] WinVorbis 1.1 released (UTF-8 support, final notice)

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ross Levis wrote:

> WinVorbis is now UTF-8 compliant!  For some reason VorbisComment doesn't 
> support UTF-8 characters in tag names, only in tag data.

That's according to the vorbis specification.  I suppose the reason for that
is so non-UTF-8 aware applications can figure out what the tag is for, even if
they can't read the contents.  I'm not sure what other reasons there are for
that.


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Stan Seibert

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