[Digikam-devel] Encoding for IPTC comments

[Leonid Zeitlin]

On 2/8/07, Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> wrote:

> Use UTF-8 instead.
[...]
>
> I propose to give one option in digiKam setup and MetadataEdit kipi-plugin to
> set the charset encoding to ASCII or UTF-8.
>
> Gilles
>

Hi Gilles,
Using UTF-8 would allow Digikam to save IPTC comments in international
languages, but it won't achieve interperability with
Picasa/IrfanView/Photoshop etc., and that was my primary goal. Those Windows
programs, as I can see from my testing, write and display IPTC
comments as is, without any encoding/decoding. Therefore for
interoperatilbity with them, comments should be in whatever encoding
Windows is using, and that is not UTF-8 (for Russian language it's
going to be CP1251).

Thanks,

 Leonid