I know what's going on. The file is missing a metadata that tells it
what coding was used for the text.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html#Q10
It reads: IPTC†: The value of the IPTC:CodedCharacterSet tag determines
how the internal IPTC string values are interpreted. If
Thanks for the info. I'll write up a patch for gottengeography that sets
this tag soon.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215249
Title:
Character set (UTF-8) issues when geotagging
To
Ok, I fixed this in git master. It should get imported into launchpad
and built in the PPA within 24 hours.
Thanks for helping make GottenGeography better ;-)
** Changed in: libimage-exiftool-perl (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
** Changed in: gottengeography
Status: New = Fix
I think this is actually a bug in exiftool. If you save and then reopen
the image with gottengeography, it correctly shows the non-ascii
characters in it's own display. Also, if you use the command `exiv2 -pi
yourfile.jpg` it shows unicode characters correctly there as well.
** Changed in:
