[vorbis] vorbiscomment and multi line comments

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Segher Boessenkool wrote on 2003-10-03:

> 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.
>
If so, why not fix it?  v-comment.html could be changed to say that
implementors are encouraged to accept it in field names (but not
produce it for now).

Are empty field names allowed?  If not, '=' could be used for the same
function::

    FOO=some
    =multi-line
    =text.


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at users.sf.net>

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