[Digikam-users] No UTF-8 in Keywords?

[Gilles Caulier]

Piotr,

Sorry, but your patch is not the right way. Look all my comments in your
bugzilla report.

If you is interressed to work on this subject, let's me hear. I have planed
to working on in a near future. I can guide you if you want...

Gilles

2007/11/1, Piotr Tarnowski <piotr_tarnowski at wp.pl>:
>
> Gilles,
>
> I've made a patch ( http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151719 ) which
> handles non latin1 encoding of iptc keywords.
>
> What is interesting in this patch (IMHO) is that is preserves per image
> encoding what is more flexible than what offers imatch.
>
> Maybe you will find this idea attractive.
>
> This is working workaround, so I can use correct spelling for my friends
> names and they are not replaced with '?' while written into image.
>
> I know it is a temporary solution but if someone else is such inpatient
> as I am
> please use it (for 0.9.2-final).
>
> /Piotr
>
> Dnia 28-10-2007 o godz. 11:23 Gilles Caulier napisał(a):
> > Piort,
> >
> > Yes this problem will be definitivly resolved in digiKam 0.10.0 to use
> XMP metadata witch support UTF-8 by default.
> >
> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikamKDE4_12.png
> >
> >
> > IPTC and characters encoding is a mess. Nothing is clear. If you use the
> right IPTC encoding tag to set UTF-8, other photo-management program
> will lack text information (for ex photoshop).
> >
> > This is why i have delayed the iptc/utf8 problem to study a right fix. A
> program like imatch from photools suite under win32 use a settings to
> converter automaticly all tag strings to utf-8.
> >
> >
> > http://www.photools.com/products.php
> >
> > This is a way that i would to use in the future :
> >
> >
> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/OthersSoftware/Imatch/setup-iptc.png
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > 2007/10/28, Piotr Tarnowski <piotr_tarnowski at wp.pl
> > >:> Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > it seams to me that my keywords are stored in JPG in Latin1 what
> results
> > >
> > > in wrong names after loading them (every not wester character replaced
> > > with '?'). I've checked in source code and in JPG dump (od -a).
> > >
> > > Is that true or my misunderstanding ?
> > >
> > > I found a bug 120241 which talks about UTF-8 in comments, does
> Keywords
> > >
> > > differ so much that the same method cannot be used?
> > >
> > > /Piotr
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