On 3/15/2010 8:55 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > 2010/3/15 Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]>: >> 2) What should the separators be? Could there be a publication like >> "tl;dr" or "Coder::Music"? Something readable yet not likely to be found >> naturally is nice. > > There are only two good choices: > a) any separators, but with the possibility to escape them with \ > b) unprintable characters (from the 0x01-0x1F ASCII range), for > example 0x1E (Record Separator), 0x1D (Group Separator) or 0x1F (Unit > Separator)
b) is what parts of ID3v2 already use (sort of; they use null chars, which presents its own problems). It's not a great solution because not only is it tougher to deal with with most string handling libraries/easier to mess up, but it also makes it almost impossible for an advanced user to edit directly. I think a) is the way to go. --Jeff
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