[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Jonathan Walther]

Hm. The embedded use argument has a lot of merit.  I still think its
wrong to stick a LANG tag in though.  According to the URL's you gave,
Japanese people want to read Chinese ideograms in their own Japanese
font...  I see no reason to do special extra encoding to force them to
see the glyphs as the encoder originally saw them.  So we're back to
UTF-8.  Also according to the URL's you gave, although the characters
may LOOK different in different locales, they do have the same meaning;
that is why they are the same in the first place.  The extra complexity
seems to buy us nothing, while a LANG tag could be a hindrance if you
want to mix and match various languages.

Jonathan

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:56:10AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>2. This means encodings other than UTF-8 in the tags; you now have an
>endless number, for each language.  (This is one of the great things
>about UTF-8: it gets rid of this.)  If you're an embedded player
>(without a big honking glibc with support for just about every encoding,
>able to convert it back to UTF-8), you probably can't deal with this.


-- 
I am working to subvert from within ...
umm ...  by writing shoddy code ... and
charging too much. -- Colin, Aug 21, 2001


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