Re: EBML data type constraints
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:49:45 +0200 Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > > On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:37:38 +0200 > > > I agree. Though I'd lobby that strings with zero bytes are also > > discouraged this way. > > > > Maybe calling them "deprecated" is the right wording? > > No, empty strings must remain possible, especially for a general purpose > base format for containers (don't think of Matroska!). The situation is > different than the one for integers. You can express »empty« for an > integer with a one-byte value part, but you can only do the equivalent > for a string with a string of 0 bytes length. We must allow it. I wasn't talking about length 0 strings, but strings with '\0' bytes in them. (Another case we've talked about.) _______________________________________________ Matroska-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-devel Read Matroska-Devel on GMane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel