[SCM] libav/experimental: Mention that metadata tags are (unvalidated) UTF-8.

siretart at users.alioth.debian.org siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
Sun Jun 30 17:01:29 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit 6164842300184ac19496192d2dd2fa3e5c2eafa6
Author: Anton Khirnov <wyskas at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 18:01:44 2010 +0000

    Mention that metadata tags are (unvalidated) UTF-8.
    
    Patch by Anton Khirnov <wyskas gmail com>.
    
    Originally committed as revision 22028 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index 65e4a84..e7426aa 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ struct AVFormatContext;
 /*
  * 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 must be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata
+ * exported by demuxers isn't checked to be valid UTF-8 in most cases.
  * Important concepts to keep in mind:
  * 1. Keys are unique; there can never be 2 tags with the same key. This is
  *    also meant semantically, i.e., a demuxer should not knowingly produce

-- 
Libav/FFmpeg packaging



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