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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-unicode">Hello
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I found strange problems with accented characters in the Author.
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Background: I am using digiKam 7.6.0 on Windows 11. I have more
than 20 000 photos (and a few movies) in my digiKam database.
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My first name has accents in it (Frédéric). While browsing my
collection in digiKam, I noticed that sometimes, digiKam seemed to
have a problem with the "é" and replaced it with a "?" (actually,
this is a question mark in a lozenge, but I don't know how to
generate it in a mail) so that my first name appeared as
"Fr?d?ric". So I decided to search for "Fr?d?ric" and put back the
correct characters. Using Advanced search, digiKam found 140 items
with "Fr?d?ric".
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I tried to correct the first photo. As expected, in the edit
metadata dialogue, digiKam showed me "Fr?d?ric". I changed it to
"Frédéric" and hit Enter. But digiKam still shows "Fr?d?ric" on
the Information tab of the Captions section. If I open again the
metadata editor, I see "Frédéric". When I try to refresh the
results (by editing the search and hitting enter without changing
anything), digiKam brings again the 140 items, including the
"corrected" photo. So am I unable to refresh the results, or is
the edited name as wrong as the incorrect name, or is this
actually a bug?
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Then I thought of copying "Frédéric" from a photo where it
appeared correctly. But when I open the metadata editor on any
picture where the author is "Frédéric", I always get "Fr?d?ric".
So here again digiKam's behaviour is not consistent, it shows
"Frédéric" on the Information tab of the Captions section, but
"Fr?d?ric" when I try to edit it. And I don't know what is right
any more!
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Actually, I am thinking of changing my name first to Frederic
without any accents, this will avoid problems with any software <span
class="moz-smiley-s1" title=":-)"></span>
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Frédéric Da Vitoria
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