Re: Localized tag names and DB insertions

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:02 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> Hi!
> Been away all of august, and catching up. F-spot seems to go in the
> right way!
> 
> A while ago, I became concerned about the tag names that are stored in
> the DB. Some tags are localized (Places in C locale becomes Lieux in
> fr_FR locale). However, the localized tag is stored in the DB (here:
> Lieux) instead of the generic (English) name. Thus, if someone switches
> (with the same DB) from one locale to another, the tag does not change.
> Which means that EXIF field filling will probably become impossible
> (such as extracting the country from the tags, or the author, or
> anything else). This is something I see as interesting to be done, and
> it requires just minute changes to the tag-handling categories (in
> short: always display the tag name, but store original tag-name in the
> DB instead).
Good idea I think.

> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Will there be another meeting tonight? I may not be able to make it
> unless it is quite late (Paris timezone).
> 
Next meeting is one week from now :)
Do try out, and comment upon the plugin patch though :)

/Bengt