[digiKam-users] ImageDescription field

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Exif do not support any special character encoding, as UTF8

Using XMP is the right way.

Note : IPTC is limited to Latin1 (ASCII extended). Take a care too.

Gilles Caulier

2018-04-19 9:43 GMT+02:00 meku <digikam at meku.org>:

> I discovered that my UTF captions appear to be corrupted using
> Digikam-5.9.0, but only in the Exif.Image.ImageDescription field.
>
> Using exiv2 command line it appears I can write UTF caption to this field.
>
> I tried loading up Digikam-6.0.0 and it appears to ignore the field when
> writing, even though the default settings in Metadata>Advanced are set to
> write to the field.
>
> Is this an issue with Digikam or is this a limitation of EXIF?
>
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