[Openexr-devel] UTF-8

[Brendan Bolles]

In OpenEXR 2.0, how about coming up with a formal position as to whether 
channel names and string attributes are considered UTF-8?

If we want to do as little as possible, I think it'd be good to at least 
include something in the docs like "use UTF-8 at your own risk" or maybe take a 
tougher stance like "all text in OpenEXR files should be ASCII".  I want to 
know if I should expect UTF-8 or can just ignore it.  Right now I'm sure some 
writers are storing UTF-8 and some readers are treating it as ASCII.


Also, maybe a new "encodedStringAttribute" should be added where the encoding 
is stored?  Would people use such a thing?


Brendan