Am Montag, 23. Mai 2016, 23:08:04 schrieb Jehan Pagès: > Hi, Hi. [...] > > ** exif:ImageDescription: ..:\w.* > > According to the Exif spec > (http://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf), even UTF-8 > should be invalid. This field is supposed to be ASCII only apparently > (yes that's sucky, definitely). To use multi-byte encoding, such as > UTF-8 (or others such as JIS), the right field is UserComment. To make matters worse, the MWG guidelines [0] state that "Exif tags documented in the Exif specification as type ASCII SHOULD be written as UTF-8". [...] > All this said, it would be good if GIMP were more robust to > otherwise-valid images, even with buggy metadata. In particular, it > should not fail to export, but simply discard the wrong metadata field > with a warning. Or just copy the content verbatim, there might be a reason for it being the way it is. > Could you please open a bug report about this issue so that we look > into this issue? > Thanks! > > Jehan Tobias [...] [0] http://metadataworkinggroup.org/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf
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