[Shotwell] bug with accent ?

[Clinton Rogers]

Hi again, Roumano,

I looked into this, and here's what seems to be happening:

When we export a photograph, we write the keywords you're seeing into the
IPTC field 'Keywords' and it seems as if exiftool isn't respecting the fact
that characters in this field can be multibyte correctly and, as such,
outputting gibberish here.  According to the exiftool
FAQ<http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/faq.html#Q10>,
it's supposed to pick up on the fact that a string is in UTF8 format
automatically, and it seems to do this in 'Subject' and 'Tag List', but it
may be that it's expecting Keywords to be plain ASCII.  In any case, it's
possible to control this by running exiftool as follows:

exiftool -charset IPTC=UTF8 <image filename>

...which should cause keywords with multibyte characters to display normally
(I just checked that it works with accented Latin characters, hiragana and
Cyrillic).

I hope this helps, but if you have further questions, please feel free to
write again.

Cheers,
-c


On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Roumano <roumano at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>        I not sure is was already reported :
>
>        I have created tag with accent like é (exemple created Andréa)
>
>        After tag the picture with shotwell 0.11.2
>
>        exiftool of the picture report this :
>
>        Subject OK     : Andréa
>        Tags List OK   : Andréa
>        Keyword NOT OK : Andréa
>
>        Regards
>
>
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