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 CodedCharacterSet exists and has a value of "UTF8" (or "ESC % G") then string values are assumed to be stored as UTF‑8. Otherwise the internal IPTC encoding is assumed to be Windows Latin1 (cp1252), but this can be changed with "-charset iptc=CHARSET"." So I took the GottenGeography tagged image and added the tag exiftool -CodedCharacterSet=UTF8 08.tif Now the output is correct in both tools exiftool 08.tif Coded Character Set : UTF8 Envelope Record Version : 4 City : San Martín de los Andes Province-State : Neuquén exiv2 -pi 08.tif Iptc.Envelope.CharacterSet String 3 Iptc.Envelope.ModelVersion Short 1 4 Iptc.Application2.City String 24 San Martín de los Andes Iptc.Application2.ProvinceState String 8 Neuquén Iptc.Application2.CountryName String 9 Argentina Iptc.Application2.RecordVersion Short 1 4 ** Changed in: gottengeography Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215249 Title: Character set (UTF-8) issues when geotagging To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gottengeography/+bug/1215249/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
