Problem with Non ASCII character and F-Spot.

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

Hi

Not much reply on my last mail, so I had a chance to do some tests
myself.

I activated Swedish keyboard, and used � �d �Everything looked very nice in F-Spot, but when I checked the photo
itself, or tried to import the XMP tags with the XMP import tags patch
it sure did not look ok anymore.

How to check/verify.

1) Start with a clean database
2) Import one photo
3) Set the titel to "Detta �en �laska"
4) Tag it with "�"
5) Copy the photo to /tmp

Select * from tags --> gives � as a tag.
Eye of Gnome       --> UserComment : Invalid size of entry (66, expected
58 x 1).
strings <photo>    --> Do not see any comment, and � tag is replaced by
<cr>l
Carefull examination of strings gives me the following:
@IMG:PowerShot A530 JPEG
Firmware Version 1.00
Unicode
0100

I tried on another photo, with an english text
Firmware Version 1.00
ASCII
This is a bottle
0100


6) Delete the photo from F-Spot
7) Import the just copied photo from /tmp
8) The tag is called "\u00D6l" where \u00D6 is �I guess
9) The comment is "Detta 'u00E4r en 'u006fl-flaska"
10) Metadata browser gives the same result.
11) The console gives the following output (debug printouts)
Have adobe usercomment = >>Detta \u00E4r en \u00F6l-flaska<<
Have keyword = >>\u00D6l<<


So, what am I missing to get F-Spot to be fully international?
I hope it is something very easy I am missing here...

My locale just in case it helps...
bengt workie:~/Photos/2006/5/5$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

/Bengt