Importing tagged photos does not assign tags to photos!

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

Now that I've got F-spot compiled, we have a problem actually
importing the tags!

Three problems:
1) Imported tags are not assigned to photos. Example: I add tags to a
photo in F-spot, then remove the photo from the ~/Photos directory and
remove it from within F-spot. I also delete the tags from the tags
list. I then close and reopen F-spot. I browse to the photo and import
it. The photo is imported, and it's tags are imported (newly
recreated). However, the tags are not assigned to the photo! I must
manually assign each tag to the photo.

2) If I do the same procedure with Hebrew tags, of course I get the
same result. However, instead of the newly created tag being in
Hebrew, it is in a string of characters. For instance, my name (דותן)
is restored like this: \u05D3\u05D5\u05EA\u05DF

3) Only the last tag in a heiarchy is restored. So People->Family->Ety
is recreated as Ety. I do understand the technical reason behind this,
and I don't need the issue addressed, however I felt it right to
report it.

I managed to get the whole Hebrew alphabet in order:
\u05D0\u05D1\u05D2\u05D3\u05D4\u05D5\u05D6\u05D7\u05D8\u05D9\u05DB\u05DA\u05DC\u05DE\u05DD\u05E0\u05DF\u05E1\u05E2\u05E4\u05E3\u05E6\u05E5\u05E7\u05E8\u05E9\u05EA
Where \u05D0 is Aleph and the final letters come directly after the
corrosponding regular letter. (Nun Sofit before Ain, for example).

I believe that the error concering #2 is in the importation of tags.
This is because using another script written by a friend that mimics
F-spot's XMP tags yeilds the same results. Also, I can create Hebrew
tags and close/open F-spot and the tag remains in Hebrew.

If a script can be created that goes through the tags and replaces,
for instance, all instances of "\u05d0" with "א" then I could run that
script. I can create an array with all the Hebrew letters and another
with their corrosponding values.

Any help in resolving the first two issues would be very much
appreciated. I know you guys have already put a lot of effort into
helping me get F-spot running, and that effort was also appreciated.
We're almost there...

Dotan Cohen
http://dotancohen.com