[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dmetadata
Gilles Caulier
caulier.gilles at kdemail.net
Fri Mar 31 17:40:12 BST 2006
Le Vendredi 31 Mars 2006 11:24, Achim Bohnet a écrit :
> 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.
>
This is a main problem with IPTC. It doesn't support UTF8 ! Alternative is XMP
metadata.
Gilles
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