[Digikam-users] Newbie questions

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Wednesday 31 October 2007 schrieb Samuel Rosset:
> > > -Kipi plug-in related (I know this is not the best place to ask this
> > > question...) : I have used the gallery export plug-in to export an
> > > album to my online gallery 1.x. I had some encoding troubles : I have
> > > some accented letters in my comments, and these were messed up after
> > > the upload to my gallery. The problem is that I haven't found a way to
> > > set the encoding, neither in Digikam, nor in gallery.
> >
> > Which comments? Digikam supports several of them... Digikam comments,
> > EXIF comments and IPTC comments. Digikam and EXIF comments support
> > non-ascii characters.
>
> Well, I don't know, but the comments used with the gallery export plug-in
> are probably the ones stored in the database. But apparently, IPTC comments
> support extended (8bit) ASCII,because my accented letters éàè etc. are
> correctly displayed in the IPTC field.
> So to sum up, let's say I have a comment with the word "montée", it is
> properly displayed in Digikam, in the EXIF and IPTC fields (checked with
> the metadata tab). If I open the gallery export plug-in and want to add
> this photo to an album, the comment is still displayed correctly, but if I
> then go to my gallery page, the new photo I uploaded shows the following
> comment : "Montée". So there is clearly a mismatched with the encoding
> (maybe between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1), but again, I don't see any option in
> gallery or digikam, to select the desired encoding. Has someone seen this
> kind of problem?
>
> Sam
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In my Gallery2 site, under maintenance, I can change the Mysql DB into UTF-8. 
I did that long time ago. And if I remember correctly that solved those 
problems for me.

Gerhard

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