[Digikam-devel] Encoding for IPTC comments

[Caulier Gilles]

Le mercredi 7 février 2007 15:15, Leonid Zeitlin a écrit :
> 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.

Use UTF-8 instead.

Look in B.K.O #132244. Andreas, the Exiv2 library author have posted a link 
with the solution about envelope IPTC tag value. From the page :

http://www.annocpan.org/~BETTELLI/Image-MetaData-JPEG-0.15/lib/Image/MetaData/JPEG/TagLists.pod

... on "IPTC data (Editorial information and envelope record)" section, you 
can read :

«
...
  4) This dataset selects a character set, for use in character oriented
     datasets in records 2-6, according to the "International Register of
     Coded Character Sets" (ISO/IEC 2022 and ISO/IEC 2375, see for instance
     L<http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/>), and typically consist of the
     escape control character followed by one or more graphic characters.
     For instance, "\033/A" refers to ISO-8859-1 (latin-1) and "\033%G" refers
     to UTF-8 (a Unicode encoding).
...
»

I propose to give one option in digiKam setup and MetadataEdit kipi-plugin to 
set the charset encoding to ASCII or UTF-8.

Gilles