[NUT-devel] Names in Nut Packets

[Michael Niedermayer]

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

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-- 
Michael