[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Glenn Maynard]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:15:03PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 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.

I don't believe he was being serious, here. :)


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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