XnView Software

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

By default IPTC is written with the local codepage, so it's normal. I'll add an option to write IPTC in UTF8

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

xnview wrote:....I'll add an option to write IPTC in UTF8

That´s great!

And what about the option ISO/IEC 8859-1 , MacOs, or ASCII???

Please, could you test XnViewMP 0.25