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What encoding is used for IPTC data? Is it Unicode? I am wandering about the readability of data entered under Windows in Linux (or something else in the future).

John Brown wrote:What encoding is used for IPTC data? Is it Unicode? I am wandering about the readability of data entered under Windows in Linux (or something else in the future).

IPTC is encoded in ascii

Pierre,

I am not quite sure if this is quite right. I am from Czechia, my Windows use CP1250 and I had no problems at all entering non-ASCII characters (which displayed correctly in other Windows photo applications).
Which would be fine, but I have one issue: I am currently dual-booting Windows and Linux and I want my data to be OS independent. The problem is that Windows use CP1250 for character encoding and Linux uses UTF-8. There are many applications that work on both systems (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, MP3 IDTags), happily sharing data and coping with the encoding. Even Windows Notepad gives you the choice between saving your file in ANSI or UTF-8, so I was wandering if XnView could offer the encoding choice as well. I have yet to install the Linux version to see how it handles the encoding, but I suspect it would use my system setting (UTF-8).
XnView is an excellent viewer - I have tested several others, but I am a XnView convert now - and if the encoding issue were solved, it would also become a first-class metadata editor.
Any thoughts on this?

John Brown wrote:Pierre,

I am not quite sure if this is quite right. I am from Czechia, my Windows use CP1250 and I had no problems at all entering non-ASCII characters (which displayed correctly in other Windows photo applications).
Which would be fine, but I have one issue: I am currently dual-booting Windows and Linux and I want my data to be OS independent. The problem is that Windows use CP1250 for character encoding and Linux uses UTF-8. There are many applications that work on both systems (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, MP3 IDTags), happily sharing data and coping with the encoding. Even Windows Notepad gives you the choice between saving your file in ANSI or UTF-8, so I was wandering if XnView could offer the encoding choice as well. I have yet to install the Linux version to see how it handles the encoding, but I suspect it would use my system setting (UTF-8).
XnView is an excellent viewer - I have tested several others, but I am a XnView convert now - and if the encoding issue were solved, it would also become a first-class metadata editor.
Any thoughts on this?

Yes, in fact you can use current encoding or utf8. But you can't know which encoding is used...