Hi, <pcg@xxxxxxxx ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )> writes: > But parasites _is_ one metadata structure. I don't see why nesting etadata > structures inside each other is a good thing - to me it only complicates > things. parasites were created for metadata. If they don't work well > enough for that parasites should be improved, rather than becoming a > legacy layer. Ack. One change we definitely should make soon is to enforce UTF-8 encoding on all strings used in parasites (names and values if defined as strings). > And the most natural place for this is parasites, which exist only to hold > metadata. If their definition isn't clear enough then this is the problem > to solve. Adding yet another layer makes the situation worse, not better exactly. If there's a need to improve the current parasites, let's do that now. I could imagine that a more hierachical structure might help, but I'd like to see a real usage case before we consider doing such a change. Is the EXIF data such a usage case? Salut, Sven
