[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-01-07, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:36:28AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > Please look at https://reactor-core.org/~djw/ogg-tags.txt again.  I've
> > just updated it.  Search for the string UTF8.
>
> If you *do* intend to allow (or rather, propose to allow) RFC2047, then
> you can't just say so in some random tag description.  (If someone used
> RFC2047, presumably they would *not* use UTF8_LANG at all, so there
> isn't even much of a connection.)  This is a substantial change that
> every encoder and decoder (or library) would have to support to some
> degree, even to reliably display UTF-8 text.  (UTF-8 text that happens
> to be a valid RFC2047 string would *have* to be encoded RFC2047.)
>
RFC2047 has a terrible price/advantage ratio since it means all
implementations must now include support for many encoding, instead of a
single one (UTF-8).  It's also ugly and not intended for this use.  Good
that the whole idea has been dropped later in the tread ;-)  Jonathan -
please throw this RFC2047 out of the stnadard ASAP.

If you do want to indicate language, TAGS_LANG would be more descriptive
than UTF8_LANG, IMO.  Just LANG is bad since it would mean the language of
the audio itself to anybody not versed in the specs.


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)

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