Re: Problem with Non ASCII character and F-Spot.

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Bengt,

confirmed also for french tags (like ones with 'ç')
i'll also try to find out why...

S

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 18:30 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 07/07/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Not much reply on my last mail, so I had a chance to do some tests
> > myself.
> >
> > I activated Swedish keyboard, and used Ö, ö and ä.
> > 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 är en öl-flaska"
> > 4) Tag it with "Öl"
> > 5) Copy the photo to /tmp
> >
> > Select * from tags --> gives Öl as a tag.
> > Eye of Gnome       --> UserComment : Invalid size of entry (66, expected
> > 58 x 1).
> > strings <photo>    --> Do not see any comment, and Öl 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 Ö 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
> 
> I'm sure you already know, Benqt, but I can confirm this issue. (I
> have a feeling that I'm the one who started it...)
> 
> I was working with Hebrew as opposed to Swedish text, but as it is
> UTF-8 I don't think that the different language matters.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
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