UTF-8 captions

[Andrey Goreev]

Hello Remco,

Digikam shows the caption under the thumbnail as well as in the right panel:
Properties -> digiKam properties/Caption
Metadata -> EXIF/Image Description; IPTC/Caption (IPTC/Character Set shows
UTF-8); XMP/Description, XMP/User comment; XMP/Image description;
Captions -> Description/Captions

Here is an extract from the output of ExifTool -a -G1 -s command:

 [File]          Comment                         : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [IFD0]          ImageDescription                : ├Ø├¼├«

 [ExifIFD]       UserComment                     : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [XMP-tiff]      ImageDescription                : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [XMP-exif]      UserComment                     : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [XMP-acdsee]    Notes                           : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [XMP-dc]        Description                     : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«

 [IPTC]          Caption-Abstract                : ├â┬Ø├â┬¼├â┬«


Best regards,
Andrey Goreev

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> On mardi 17 janvier 2017 06:26:46 CET Andrey Goreev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Digikam handbook says that captions are UTF-8 compatible (see the text
> > extract below) however I found some pictures with "Ìåäâåäü
> ïîñë"
> > simbols that do not make sense to me.
> > I went through all the settings and did not notice any related setting.
> > Please advise if I am missing something.
> >
> That fragment looks like you had some UTF-8 text in the captions that is
> then
> displayed by a program that does not understand UTF-8 (but uses an 8-bit
> character set). A series like that could be a text fragment in a non-latin
> script, where each 'Ã?" stands for a letter. Note that, while Digikam can
> handle UTF-8, only XPM tags can store it, IPTC and EXIF are limited to 8
> bits/
> char (and thus would give the kind of strings you quoted).
>
> I can't be more precise, as you don't specify where you saw that text
> (within
> Digikam's caption editor, its metadata viewer, or using an external tag
> viewer/editor, or ...).
>
> Remco
>
>
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