[Vorbis] newlines in vorbis comments

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Fri Sep 17 12:56:45 PDT 2004




Your points are all good, but I do want to comment on:

> I'm writing this email on a unix-like system, and it will be read by 
> people using other platforms. So obviously, you CAN have 
> platform-independent newlines in email. This is possible because people 
> using different platforms agreed over the allowed newline 
> representations used in email. I think, the same could be achieved for 
> vorbis tags.

RFC822 and 2822 do not leave the meaning of CR and LF open to
interpretation; they specify exactly what they mean and what to use.
An app that ignores the spec will very likely see all its mail lost
because it´s unparsable by spec. 

Monty


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