[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

Jonathan Walther krooger at debian.org
Fri Jan 4 01:21:14 PST 2002


True.  How about this compromise?  We recommend people use
UTF-8 where they can, but where that leads to ambiguity (as with Asian
languages), they use the RFC2047 scheme?  I believe RFC2047 is upwards
compatible with UTF-8 anyway, so you can even use both at once if
the fancy takes you...

Jonathan

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:01:44AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:49:01AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
>> Too bad unicode didn't include a way to specify the character set
>> as a sort of "special" character itself...
>
>Well, Unicode and UTF-8 are completely stateless.  (This is a good
>thing--UTF-8 is used in modern terminal emulators, and it's good to have
>as little state as possible there.  Remember VT1xx "flashing"?)

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