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2004.04.22 21:06 "Re: Large TIFF files", by Chris Cox
At 12:45 AM +0400 4/23/04, Andrey Kiselev wrote: > Chris, > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:21:31AM -0700, Chris Cox wrote: > > Yes, but do they dream in big endian or little endian? > > Using ASCII tags would make it readable regardless of byte order. > > It is still not clear for me what do you (and others) mean as ASCII > tags? Completely serialized metadata (including numerics and strings)? > I should note that things like these bring up many problems with > i18n/l10n: decimal delimiters, encodings etc. The values would not be ASCII, just the tags. There can't be any problem with interpreting the tags -- it's just using human readable strings (7 bit ASCII, roman character set, English) instead of numbers. Chris