[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dmetadata

[Achim Bohnet]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 12:53, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> SVN commit 524348 by cgilles:
> 
> ascii -> latin1
> 
>  M  +1 -1      dmetadata.cpp  
> 
> 
> --- trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp #524347:524348
> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
>          // In Third we write comments into Iptc.
>  
>          Exiv2::IptcData &iptcData = image->iptcData();
> -        iptcData["Iptc.Application2.Caption"] = comment.ascii();
> +        iptcData["Iptc.Application2.Caption"] = comment.latin1();

I assume all non-european people will not be happy about this.
Is there any reason why we can't use UTF-8?  Or at least store
somewhere which 8bit charset is use?   8 bit char sets are a mess
and should be avoided whereever possible.

Achim
>          image->setIptcData(iptcData);
>      
>          image->writeMetadata();
> 

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