[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Dan Hollis]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> Multi-language support?  Everyone should use ASCII.  All those Asian
> encodings?  When I was in Korea I played with them.  Big5, etc.  In the
> famous words of Marie Antoinette: let them use ASCII.  Instead of using
> a 64 bit glyph to represent a Chinese ideogram, use 3-4 bytes to spell
> out the word in the romanized version.  Ditto Korean.  Let the display
> software turn the word-strings into indexes into a table of appropriate
> glyphs.

To asians, all-romanized native language text looks like all caps writing 
-- it is incredibly annoying.

If you want to *GUARANTEE* that vorbis *NEVER* makes *ANY* penetration 
into asia, go ahead and force everyone to use ascii.

-Dan

-- 
[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

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