[vorbis] vorbiscomment and multi line comments

[Beni Cherniavsky]

John Morton wrote on 2003-10-02:

> On Thursday 02 October 2003 23:29, you wrote:
> >  On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:09:17PM +1200, John Morton wrote:
> >  No, we've not implemented any more sophisticated input format for vorbis
> >  comment. As you say, -t "foo=bar" works fine up to the length-limit of
> >  the commandline. I have run into the problem occasionally, but in those
> >  few cases I just used that as a work-around.
>
> Fair enough. I'll indent multi-line comments in my text serializing scheme
> with '~', seeing as ascii 0x7E appears to be outside the range allowed for
> field names.
>
The issue with this approach is that multi-line comments won't be
easily processible with scripts, because they will still span mulitple
lines.  Grep and friends won't work well with them.  Therefore I
believe that ``\n`` or something like that would be better.

I've once written__ a patch__ for reading/writing this style, also
supporting ``\0``.  (It was somewhat overengineered, also supporting a
different style abusing 254 and 255 which can't appear in UTF-8; I now
think that's quite useless and if more than one styles should be
supported a human-readable one, like your ``~`` idea would be better).

__ http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200211/0128.html
__ http://bugs.xiph.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273


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