[Digikam-users] Re: names in caption list

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 14:18, Erol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
> I sometimes use Hebrew to caption my photos. In the digikam caption list
> (the description of the photo that appears under the thumbnail) the
> caption is a series of question marks not Hebrew (or any letters). If I
> double-click on the photo (to enlarge it) ׁHebrew is written in the panel
> at the bottom of the photo. If I do search in digikam for a photo named
> in hebrew using the name in Hebrew, the correct photo is produced. In
> other parts of digikam the Hebrew name appears. In the right panel under
> the heading "file properties" the name is written in Hebrew. Under the
> heading "Digikam properties" and sub heading "caption", a series of
> question marks appear. Exactly as they appear under the thumbnail. Only
> in the caption is the name a series of question marks.
>
> As I said it doesn't interfere with using Digikam because somehow the
> name is read when doing a search. Is there a way to make the caption
> read a foreign language i.e a language not with Latin lettering?
>

Which version of Digikam? In Digikam 2.0b5 on KDE 4.6.3 on Kubuntu
11.04 I entered a Hebrew caption and it worked just fine. It was even
properly shown with right directionality and the punctuation on the
left, even though KDE and Digikam are in English.

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