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

[Leonid Zeitlin]

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------- Additional Comments From lz europe com  2007-06-14 11:51 -------
Hi Gilles,
I completely agree that DigiKam should be strict in setting the tag correctly. However, I think it also should be liberal in reading the IPTC comments with encoding tag unset. I don't think one can assume that the comments are in ASCII, for non-English comments they won't. Even trying UTF-8 and system locale, as Mikolay above suggests, will not achieve full interoperability with Windows applications (something I an very keen about). Indeed, for a Russian-speaking user, any Windows application will write the comments in Windows CP1251 encoding; at the same time under a Unix system, the locale is likely to be either Russian KOI8-R or UTF-8. This is why I advocated adding a configration option for encoding to use in IPTC comments (which could default to UTF-8 of course).

I also wouldn't want digiKam to convert and update all existing IPTC tag to UTF8 if original encoding is different. The issue is, as I mentioned before, that many other applications will not recognize UTF-8 in IPTC comments and display raw Unicode characters, i.e. garbage.