[Digikam-devel] Encoding for IPTC comments

[Leonid Zeitlin]

Ok, I will post to bugzilla.

One note about setting Iptc.Envelope.CharacterSet though. I am afraid
CP1251 is not even registered in the "International Registry for Coded
Character Sets", and probably some other charsets that could be used
by KDE aren't either. Therefore setting this tags is not always
possible.

Thanks,
  Leonid

On 2/7/07, Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> wrote:
> Le mercredi 7 février 2007 12:37, vous avez écrit:
> > Hi Gilles,
> > Thanks for your reply. I didn't realize the code was refactored since
> > 0.9.0 release. I will get the latest from SVN and adapt my patch to
> > the new code.
> >
> > Regarding the discussion in bug #132244. I tried setting
> > Iptc.Envelope.CharacterSet with exiv2 command-line utility and then
> > saving Iptc.Application2.Caption in UTF8 as described there.
>
> yes, this tag need to be set accordinly to the charset encoding used. I
> recommend to provide 2 charset (i have not yet checked your patch) :
>
> - ASSCI
> - UTF8
>
> With the last one, all language will be supported.
>
> > I've
> > found that both Photoshop and IrfanView didn't decode UTF and showed
> > it as is (unreadable), while Picasa simply didn't recognize the
> > presence of caption at all. I also saw that Picasa doesn't set
> > Iptc.Envelope.CharacterSet tag.
>
> yes, i have suspected this problem, reading some web site about this subject.
>
> > Therefore I think my approach is
> > orthogonal to what is discussed there and still would be a good
> > feature.
>
> yes, it's look fine for me. but the enveloppe tag need to be set accordinly.
>
> >
> > I will get back to you once I update the patch to the latest code.
>
> fine for me. Please post it in the bugzilla file #132244. It's better than
> mailling list (this one is limited to attachment size)...
>
> Gilles
>