Re: Problem with Non ASCII character and F-Spot.

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 07/07/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> 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...
> bengt workie:~/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