[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mention that metadata tags are UTF-8

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Tue Feb 23 07:28:35 CET 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:24:01PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 09:22:39AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > >  /*
> > >   * Public Metadata API.
> > >   * The metadata API allows libavformat to export metadata tags to a client
> > > - * application using a sequence of key/value pairs.
> > > + * application using a sequence of key/value pairs. Like all strings in FFmpeg,
> > > + * metadata should be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
> > 
> > s/should/must/
> > And it should probably mention that FFmpeg does not validate or normalize UTF-8
> > it stores when demuxing.
> done

No further comments from me.



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