[digiKam-users] ImageDescription field

[meku]

Strange exiv2 commandline appears to work, eg:
exiv2 -M"set Exif.Image.ImageDescription 'ミスタードーナツ'" FILE.JPG

I filed a bug for Exif.Image.ImageDescription field not updating in DK6,
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393283

On 19 April 2018 at 17:48, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Exif do not support any special character encoding, as UTF8
>
> Using XMP is the right way.
>
> Note : IPTC is limited to Latin1 (ASCII extended). Take a care too.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2018-04-19 9:43 GMT+02:00 meku <digikam at meku.org>:
>
>> I discovered that my UTF captions appear to be corrupted using
>> Digikam-5.9.0, but only in the Exif.Image.ImageDescription field.
>>
>> Using exiv2 command line it appears I can write UTF caption to this field.
>>
>> I tried loading up Digikam-6.0.0 and it appears to ignore the field when
>> writing, even though the default settings in Metadata>Advanced are set to
>> write to the field.
>>
>> Is this an issue with Digikam or is this a limitation of EXIF?
>>
>
>
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