[Digikam-users] export of albums

[Gilles Caulier]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:37 pm, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 1 czerwca 2006 08:03, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > > Major limitation. Maybe non-ascii chars could encoded as something
> > > like <U+hexvalue> and later reencoded as character? Even in programs
> > > not aware about that convention it could be understandable (although
> > > not very readable).
> >
> > no, IPTC is a normalization. If you do something like that, other
> > photomanagement programs can't read these informations.
>
> They will read. Slightly less readable but at least understandable for
> end-user. What is more useful for end-user::
>
>     za?ó??
>
> or::
>
>     za<U+017c>ó<U+0142><U+0107>

Of course, but the second problem of IPTC the the size of strings limitation. 
IPTC keywords used to store digiKAm tags are limited to 64 char !

XMP don't have this limitation.

Gilles