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

[Segher Boessenkool]

volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> 
> 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.

Tags are case insensitive. Forcing tags to be ascii makes that so much
easier :)

Also, tagnames are supposed to be meaningful regardless of language. 
That means
they should be english ;)

<p>Segher

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