Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal

[Charles Duffy]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:55, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> Yeah, I had a look at that, too, in my search for the post you referred to. 
> I've read it again now, but I don't see much to comment on. AFAICS the only 
> thing you say about metadata is that 1) you think no metadata attribute 
> should be mandatory, and 2) you think EAs should be used (if available). I 
> disagree with the first point (not very strongly, though), and agree with 
> the second one. Was these points what you were referring to?

That no metadata (beyond what's already there) should be mandatory, and
that EAs should be used if available /and user-preferred/. Yes, those
were the items I was curious to hear your comments on.