[Digikam-users] export of albums

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia środa, 31 maja 2006 10:59, Caulier Gilles napisał:
> Le Mercredi 31 Mai 2006 12:53 AM, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> > Dnia wtorek, 30 maja 2006 23:06, Florian Ehinger napisał:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > * Is it possible to export some albums from the database including
> > > the tags. This would be very nice for backups and to give certain
> > > pictures or albums to other persons (computers).
> >
> > In 0.9svn version tags are stored as IPTC tags inside of images. So,
> > even if you just copy images somewhere this info will be there.
>
> yes, tags are saved in keyword IPTC tags but there are a main
> restriction : IPTC only support ascii char ! take a care to use only
> ASCII in tags labels.

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).

> Also, the fonction to create unexisting tags in database when an image
> is imported is not finalized. still TODO...

But good this *is* in todo :)

m.