/*
 * Entagged Audio Tag library
 * Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Raphaël Slinckx <raphael@slinckx.net>
 * 
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *  
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 */
package org.jaudiotagger.tag;

/**
 * This interface extends the default field definition by methods for working
 * with human readable text.<br>
 * A TagTextField does not store binary data.
 *
 * @author Rapha�l Slinckx
 */
public interface TagTextField extends TagField
{

    /**
     * Returns the content of the field.
     *
     * @return Content
     */
    public String getContent();

    /**
     * Returns the current used charset encoding.
     *
     * @return Charset encoding.
     */
    public String getEncoding();

    /**
     * Sets the content of the field.
     *
     * @param content fields content.
     */
    public void setContent(String content);

    /**
     * Sets the charset encoding used by the field.
     *
     * @param encoding charset.
     */
    public void setEncoding(String encoding);
}