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

[Reimar Döffinger]

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.