# HG changeset patch
# User rbultje
# Date 1267034504 0
# Node ID 20877abd6b08c6aa9f1be87f503bf903dd0ba040
# Parent  1481fbffd30beae5e67729df5fe9dfce16f37d63
Mention that metadata tags are (unvalidated) UTF-8.

Patch by Anton Khirnov <wyskas gmail com>.

diff -r 1481fbffd30b -r 20877abd6b08 avformat.h
--- a/avformat.h	Wed Feb 24 11:43:33 2010 +0000
+++ b/avformat.h	Wed Feb 24 18:01:44 2010 +0000
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@
 /*
  * Public Metadata API.
  * The metadata API allows libavformat to export metadata tags to a client
- * application using a sequence of key/value pairs.
+ * application using a sequence of key/value pairs. Like all strings in FFmpeg,
+ * metadata must be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata
+ * exported by demuxers isn't checked to be valid UTF-8 in most cases.
  * Important concepts to keep in mind:
  * 1. Keys are unique; there can never be 2 tags with the same key. This is
  *    also meant semantically, i.e., a demuxer should not knowingly produce