[Digikam-devel] [Bug 195508] New: UTF-8 characters in XMP should be synced to IPTC after conversion to printable ASCII

[Milan Knizek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195508

           Summary: UTF-8 characters in XMP should be synced to IPTC after
                    conversion to printable ASCII
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.10.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: knizek at volny.cz


Version:           0.10.0 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The original IPTC standard allows only printable ASCII characters.

When using UTF-8 characters in Digikam (e.g. author, copyright, keywords),
these are synced to IPTC wrongly - majority of unknown characters are replaced
by a question mark, while some characters still survive (I assume those defined
in ISO-8859-1 / Latin1 set).

I would assume that non-ASCII text should be transliterated to ASCII
equivalent, if possible.

See the screenshot here:
http://www.milan-knizek.net/files/tmp/digikam_01.png

It shows both UTF-8 console and Digikam output and also the iconv command for
transliteration.

(Ignore the repeated keyword "Kašpárek" in IPTC displayed by Digikam, this
seems to be another bug reported by someone else earlier.)

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