Image-ExifTool - Re: Non Printable Ascii Chars In XMP

Posted on Wed Jan 17 19:29:38 2007 by exiftool in response to 4068 (See the whole thread of 9)
Re: Non Printable Ascii Chars In XMP
Hi Mark,

I've been reading more about the ISO 2022 specification that is used in IPTC, and there are a couple of things I'm thinking about changing. The first issue won't affect you because you're not writing IPTC, but the second may help if you have translation problems with images where CodedCharacterSet has been set to an unrecognized value.

1) I think I'll change the default behaviour of setting CodedCharacterSet to UTF8 when creating a new IPTC record because it seems there isn't good support for this in other applications.

2) I may try applying the Latin conversion even for unrecognized CodedCharacterSets provided no alternate ISO 2022 character sets have been invoked in the text.

- Phil
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