<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/9/12, Thomas Hummel <<a href="mailto:hummel@pasteur.fr">hummel@pasteur.fr</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:24:07PM -0400, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>> yes, in theory. For JPEG, the IPTC section is limited to 64Kb. for PNG and<br>> TIFF, there is no limit.<br><br>sorry if I misunderstand, but here you mean, by keyword (like one line of my exmaple below (people/family/thomas) or for the whole ?
<br><br>> To be clear, if in digikam I assign, for a picture the following flags :<br>> ><br>> > people/family/thomas<br>> > people/family/laurence<br>> > animals/cats/timi<br>> > ...<br>> > can I have any number of those saved in IPTC keywords as long as each of
<br>> > them (such as people/family/thomas) is less then 64B long ?<br><br>> yes<br><br>Same clarification request as above : here you mean "yes" whatever the file<br>format (jpeg, tiff, ...) or just for some of them ?
</blockquote><div><br>IPTC metadata format is undependant of file format, excepted about where picture store the IPTC byte array and which size restriction is relevant.<br><br>in IPTC you can store an unlimited list of keywords, of 64B each (nx64B)
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> all tags are stored in digiKam DB. when all will be ready in 0.10, just use
<br>> the sync pictures<->DB tools to update all in your images. Of course the<br>> future right options to sync XMP must be enable (XMP config panel not yet<br>> done).<br><br>Ok, I see, but that would be an argument for creating tags with accents (UTF-8)
<br>right now, wouldn't it (so tags name are here to stay and won't need to be<br>"accentuated" later) ? Is the patch you mention below activated by default ?</blockquote><div><br>the pach is not yet apply in source code.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">To be clear :<br><br>Do I have better to create right now a tag named "Françoise", in order not to
<br>rewrite "Francoise" into "Françoise" when XMP will be supported ? Or is it<br>safer, regarding the status of char-encoding right now, to create "Francoise"<br>and then "migrate" it later when the "ç" will be supported (but I cannot think
<br>of any easy way to do it automatically) ?</blockquote><div><br>DB store all strings in UTF-8. When you store tags as IPTC keywords, all char are converted to ascii latin1 format.<br>You create all you tags using accents as well, but you must take a care than IPTC will not support it very well. If you is patient, XMP support will be available for
0.10 planed for KDE4 release.<br><br>I don't know a simple way to patch all tags to add accents automaticly. You can certainly do it with a script which will make changes in SQlite DB file.<br> </div>Gilles</div>