[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Glenn Maynard]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:32:22PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > The problem is that you can't display all languages correctly with
> > only
> > UTF-8 text, without knowing what language the text is in.
>
> Yep. That's part of why asians hate unicode.

Do they?  It isn't perfect, but it seems to be a definitive step
forward.

You don't know what language the text is in, so you can't display it in
a strictly *correct* way.  You need to know the language.  But before, 
you couldn't display it at all if you didn't know what encoding it was
in.  Both require a piece of information be stored somewhere; at least
now, if it's missing, you can get something reasonable.  (You can't take
a hunk of data--like a filename--and reliably determine what encoding
it's in.  You always had to have all of your filenames in one encoding,
so you couldn't really mix Japanese and Arabic filenames.  You can do
that now.)

It seems you can still do everything you could before; you just can't do
*everything* for free.

> No... RFC1522 is your answer.

Read
Message-ID: <20020104095610.GA4915 at zewt.org>
for a large number of reasons not to use that.  (It's actually written
in response to a suggestion to use RFC2047, but they all apply to
RFC1522 as well.)

I believe the best choice now would be to leave the tags alone--UTF-8
only, no language tags, no encodings other than UTF-8.  Leave them alone
and start the metadata stream, which can do this cleanly.

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

(gah)


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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