[vorbis] vorbiscomment and multi line comments

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 3 05:26:28 PDT 2003



Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:20:02AM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Kludge alert! Kludge alert!
> 
> He said 'field names' not 'field contents'. The tag names must be formed 
> from an ascii subset by spec. It really is meant to be quick-and-dirty, 
> casual metadata.
> 
> The values of the tags, after the '=' delimeter, are utf-8.

The fact that ascii 126 is not allowed is just a historical typo/thinko.

<p>Segher

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