[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:51:26PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > unicode is *HORRIBLE* for data interchange between machines, because 
> > critical information is always lost.
> > > It seems you can still do everything you could before; you just can't do
> > > *everything* for free.
> > No. You lose information.
> Just to be clear, this is incorrect.  Unicode is guaranteed to be round-
> trip compatible with the encodings in question.

Except that it's not. What the standard promises in writing and what's 
actually achieved in practice are two different things.

> Unicode is a superset of these.  There's nothing you can encode in JIS 
> or EUC-JP that you can't encode in Unicode.

But you can't get it back reliably. :-(

See: http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html

-Dan

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