Hi On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:21:01PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
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
well, the problem is "X-cartoonist" vs "X-mangaka in kanji" for example, even if i cant read the value (name of the artist) i would like to know what the field does contain, not to mention the issue of what name english cartoons would then use [...] -- Michael