[ID3 Dev] 0-termination in text frames

[Ben Bennett]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:28:19PM +0100, Florian Heidenreich wrote:
> I'm still not sure about the issue. The ID3v2.4 spec from 
> http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure presents a list of possible encodings 
> at '4. ID3v2 frame overview' where the terminating 0 is explicitly 
> included in every text string:
> 
> <snip>
> Frames that allow different types of text encoding contains a text
>    encoding description byte. Possible encodings:
> 
>      $00   ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
>      $01   UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All
>            strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder.
>            Terminated with $00 00.
>      $02   UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM.
>            Terminated with $00 00.
>      $03   UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.
> </snap>
> 
> According to that list it seems to me, that every string includes a 
> terminating $00 (or $00 00 when using UTF-16).

I think you are misinterpreting that.  That is where they are telling
you what the termination character for that string type is.



	     -ben

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