[LAD] Ladspa: Text encoding for metadata fields

Steve Harris steve at plugin.org.uk
Fri Aug 1 16:16:34 UTC 2008


I think the convention is for UTF-8, but as you say, it was never  
specified. LV2 specifies UTF-8.

- Steve

On 30 Jul 2008, at 20:34, David García Garzón wrote:

> I have some doubts, as both host and plugin programmer, regarding  
> the text
> encoding that should be used for Ladspa v1 metadata fields. Is there  
> any
> convention? Utf8? Is it limited to plain ASCII? Which fields are  
> restricted
> and which are not?
>
> I supose that unicode is supported in some way as many 'makers' have  
> weird
> signs on their name but the header-documentation does not provide  
> any answer
> to that.
>
> David García Garzón.
>
>
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