<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Exif do not support any special character encoding, as UTF8</div><div><br></div><div>Using XMP is the right way.</div><div><br></div><div>Note : IPTC is limited to Latin1 (ASCII extended). Take a care too.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-04-19 9:43 GMT+02:00 meku <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:digikam@meku.org" target="_blank">digikam@meku.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I discovered that my UTF captions appear to be corrupted using Digikam-5.9.0, but only in the Exif.Image.ImageDescription field.<div><br></div><div>Using exiv2 command line it appears I can write UTF caption to this field.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this an issue with Digikam or is this a limitation of EXIF?</div></div>
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