<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello Remco,<br><br></div>Digikam shows the caption under the thumbnail as well as in the right panel:<br>Properties -> digiKam properties/Caption<br>Metadata -> EXIF/Image Description; IPTC/Caption (IPTC/Character Set shows UTF-8); XMP/Description, XMP/User comment; XMP/Image description; <br>Captions -> Description/Captions<br><br></div>Here is an extract from the output of ExifTool -a -G1 -s command:<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[File]<span> </span>Comment<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[IFD0]<span> </span>ImageDescription<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[ExifIFD]<span> </span>UserComment<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[XMP-tiff]<span> </span>ImageDescription<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[XMP-exif]<span> </span>UserComment<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[XMP-acdsee]<span> </span>Notes<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[XMP-dc]<span> </span>Description<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>[IPTC]<span> </span>Caption-Abstract<span> </span>: <span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>Ø</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>¼</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">├</span><span>â</span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">┬</span><span>«</span></p>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards, <br>Andrey Goreev</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Remco Viëtor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On mardi 17 janvier 2017 06:26:46 CET Andrey Goreev wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> Digikam handbook says that captions are UTF-8 compatible (see the text<br>
> extract below) however I found some pictures with "Ìåäâåäü ïîñë"<br>
> simbols that do not make sense to me.<br>
> I went through all the settings and did not notice any related setting.<br>
> Please advise if I am missing something.<br>
><br>
That fragment looks like you had some UTF-8 text in the captions that is then<br>
displayed by a program that does not understand UTF-8 (but uses an 8-bit<br>
character set). A series like that could be a text fragment in a non-latin<br>
script, where each 'Ã?" stands for a letter. Note that, while Digikam can<br>
handle UTF-8, only XPM tags can store it, IPTC and EXIF are limited to 8 bits/<br>
char (and thus would give the kind of strings you quoted).<br>
<br>
I can't be more precise, as you don't specify where you saw that text (within<br>
Digikam's caption editor, its metadata viewer, or using an external tag<br>
viewer/editor, or ...).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Remco<br>
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