[NUT-devel] Names in Nut Packets

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:05:09PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > i think not limit them, allow the user to have whatever extra weird fields 
> > he wants, there's no big disadvantage in allowing full utf-8...
> 
> id say require names and types to be ASCII and in english or at least suggest
> it if possible, otherwise we might end up with X-?????? stuff written in your
> favorite asian or whatever language

What's wrong with this? A player can just ignore names it can't
display, since they obviously won't represent anything meaningful to
the user. For types I would generally agree that ascii is sufficient,
but I see no harm in allowing any character.

> values should be UTF-8 where appropriate and ASCII where not
> (Author,Title, ... should be UTF-8 while Language and Disposition just need 
> ASCII)

Yes.

> but i dont have a strong oppionion on these, making all UTF-8 is fine for
> me too

IMO it's fine for them to be UTF-8 since UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII.
It just happens that no non-ASCII language or disposition values
represent meaningful info. In other words, we don't need to make any
special rule to make non-ASCII values of language invalid. They're
just invalid because language is required to be an ISO 639-2 code, and
all ISO 639-2 codes are ASCII.

Rich