On 07/07/06, Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Not much reply on my last mail, so I had a chance to do some tests > myself. > > I activated Swedish keyboard, and used Ö, ö and ä. > Everything looked very nice in F-Spot, but when I checked the photo > itself, or tried to import the XMP tags with the XMP import tags patch > it sure did not look ok anymore. > > How to check/verify. > > 1) Start with a clean database > 2) Import one photo > 3) Set the titel to "Detta är en öl-flaska" > 4) Tag it with "Öl" > 5) Copy the photo to /tmp > > Select * from tags --> gives Öl as a tag. > Eye of Gnome --> UserComment : Invalid size of entry (66, expected > 58 x 1). > strings <photo> --> Do not see any comment, and Öl tag is replaced by > <cr>l > Carefull examination of strings gives me the following: > @IMG:PowerShot A530 JPEG > Firmware Version 1.00 > Unicode > 0100 > > I tried on another photo, with an english text > Firmware Version 1.00 > ASCII > This is a bottle > 0100 > > > 6) Delete the photo from F-Spot > 7) Import the just copied photo from /tmp > 8) The tag is called "\u00D6l" where \u00D6 is Ö I guess > 9) The comment is "Detta 'u00E4r en 'u006fl-flaska" > 10) Metadata browser gives the same result. > 11) The console gives the following output (debug printouts) > Have adobe usercomment = >>Detta \u00E4r en \u00F6l-flaska<< > Have keyword = >>\u00D6l<< > > > So, what am I missing to get F-Spot to be fully international? > I hope it is something very easy I am missing here... > > My locale just in case it helps... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Photos/2006/5/5$ locale > LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_AU:en > LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > /Bengt
I'm sure you already know, Benqt, but I can confirm this issue. (I have a feeling that I'm the one who started it...) I was working with Hebrew as opposed to Swedish text, but as it is UTF-8 I don't think that the different language matters. Dotan Cohen _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
