Malformed characters in EXIF Copyright field
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:49 am
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Encountered Behavior:
Malformed characters in EXIF Copyright field for Copyright symbol and accented e (é). Note that the EXIF Artist field displays the accented é correctly.
Expected Behavior:
- Although EXIF field have been limited to ASCII per EXIF standard. Per the Metadata Working Group Guidelines (Ver 2, 2010), modern applications can write and read UTF-8 characters to certain EXIF fields in order to maintain consistency with equivalent IPTC, XMP fields.
Encountered Behavior:
Malformed characters in EXIF Copyright field for Copyright symbol and accented e (é). Note that the EXIF Artist field displays the accented é correctly.
Expected Behavior:
- Although EXIF field have been limited to ASCII per EXIF standard. Per the Metadata Working Group Guidelines (Ver 2, 2010), modern applications can write and read UTF-8 characters to certain EXIF fields in order to maintain consistency with equivalent IPTC, XMP fields.