Each of my photos has an IPTC Caption field, all had been written on an XP machine with non-latin encoding.
In my case the encoding is CP1255 or iso8859-8. XnviewMP-0.21 displays it correctly on windows.
However when I browse the same files on linux (Fedora9), xnviewMP does not display the non-latin characters.
If I go the opposite direction and write the Caption field on a linux machine, the text is written in utf8 encoding
and xnviewMP on XP displays it is junk.
Since I shall continue to work with both OS, what is needed is a possibility to tell xnviewMP in which encoding to
interprete the embeded text.
By the way, picasa and digikam on linux fail precisely at the same problem.
Thanks,
U. Elias
IPTC Caption field + encoding
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Re: IPTC Caption field + encoding
By default IPTC is written with the local codepage, so it's normal. I'll add an option to write IPTC in UTF8
Pierre.
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Re: IPTC Caption field + encoding
Thank you for the quick and positive reply.
I personally will be happy to have an option to read an existing IPTC Caption in a given encoding
(chosen from a menu), since I already have thousands of old photos with captions and I dont want
to loose them.
U. Elias
I personally will be happy to have an option to read an existing IPTC Caption in a given encoding
(chosen from a menu), since I already have thousands of old photos with captions and I dont want
to loose them.
U. Elias
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Re: IPTC Caption field + encoding
That´s great!xnview wrote:....I'll add an option to write IPTC in UTF8
And what about the option ISO/IEC 8859-1 , MacOs, or ASCII???
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