[Digikam-devel] [Bug 132244] Special Chars in Keywords decode wrong in IPTC

[Dotan Cohen]

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------- Additional Comments From kde dotancohen com  2007-01-19 12:55 -------
BrilliantPhoto has absolutly no setup screen. There are no configurable options, and therefore no Preferences nor Options dialogs. That's actually one of the things that I _don't_ like about it, but otherwise it was a great program.

Acording to the BrilliantPhoto forums, which have since been taken down, the IPTC spec specifically requires the use of UTF-8 for the data. No other charset is acceptable. I read the spec a long time ago and in my opinion that 'fact' is debateable. However, the BrilliantPhoto author was very certain that only UTF-8 is allowed.

If you have a Windows virtual machine, I'd very much recommend downloading and trying BrilliantPhoto:
http://www.download.com/BrilliantPhoto/3000-2204_4-10326351.html

Digikam could learn quite a few things from BP, such as the wonderfull "fill flash" feature, which brightens underexposed photos better than any other program I've yet seen. The red-eye reduction selector is ROUND, like EYES, so they affect less skin. Why does no other program do that? Should I continue to list BP's other great features?