[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> >If you *do* want to be able to do that, then the language of the tags is
> >needed.  A cheap way to do it would be to have a single "lang" tag, with
> >a standard two-letter language code.  (This would explicitely mark the
> I disagree.  Tag data is 8 bit clean.  Right now it is mostly ascii but
> there is no reason why character encoding couldn't be specified as it is
> in RFC compliant email headers.  Its some kind of ugly 8 character ascii
> string, and I don't know what RFC it's specified

I think it's MIME rfc ;-)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1522.html

> Here is an example of what I mean, taken from a recent message to the
> debian-devel mailing list:
> 
> From: =?ks_c_5601-1987?B?x+7FuMDM?= <dkfjskd-dd at hotmail.com>
> To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
> Subject: =?ks_c_5601-1987?B?W7GksO1dIMfuxbjAzMO1sbk=?=
> 
> Here is what that showed up as in mutt:
> 
> From: \307\356\305\270\300\314 <dkfjskd-dd at hotmail.com>
> To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
> Subject: [\261\244\260\355] \307\356\305\270\300\314\303\265\261\271
> 
> But in pine it some how magically showed up as Korean glyphs.
> So, since we already have an RFC approved standard (I'm assuming; I've
> been seeing these types of emails for years) for mixing foreign glyphs
> with real text, lets use it.

Exactly. The RFC exists. Use it!!!

-Dan

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