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Id: 28983
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: Image-ExifTool
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: tuzen [...] hotmail.com
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  Fri Aug 24 21:35:34 2007 tuzen [...] hotmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: -IFD0:XPTitle becomes encoded
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:33:55 -0700
To: <bug-Image-ExifTool [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Brian Williams" <tuzen [...] hotmail.com>
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I have one file, attached as an example, that returns strange characters for XPTitle. However, I checked inside the file using -htmlDump and it value appears ok in there. Thanks! -Brian Show quoted text
>exiftool.exe -IFD0:XPTitle trouble.jpg
returns: XP Title : µ?â?Ñ??êáµ?á?üª?£??ä??ö??ä¡?Ç?????£? expected: XP Title : Copy 2 of 070115-1504-37
  Sat Aug 25 09:16:28 2007 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
From: EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org
Hi Brian, Thanks for the bug report and the sample. However, I don't think this is an ExifTool bug. The XPTitle tag is encoded in Unicode as written by Windows XP. In your image, the XPTitle data is plain ASCII. As far as I know, ASCII data is not valid for this tag. What software was used to write this tag? - Phil
  Sat Aug 25 09:16:33 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Aug 27 18:53:36 2007 tuzen [...] hotmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #28983] -IFD0:XPTitle becomes encoded
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:53:02 -0700
To: <bug-Image-ExifTool [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Brian Williams" <tuzen [...] hotmail.com>
IDimager was used to tag the file; although I use lightroom now, and that unfortunately appears to ignore the old XP titles. Although, Exiftool usually warns about problems, and it gave me data so I knew something was in there. I was able to read this file with C#'s BitmapMetadata interface and while that worked ok, I have not tried to edit. I don't know very much about the encodings, but the Exiftool.exe interface is more friendly. Thanks! -Brian Show quoted text
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Harvey via RT" <bug-Image-ExifTool@rt.cpan.org> To: <tuzen@hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: [rt.cpan.org #28983] -IFD0:XPTitle becomes encoded
> > <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28983 > > > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for the bug report and the sample. However, I don't think this is > an ExifTool bug. > > The XPTitle tag is encoded in Unicode as written by Windows XP. In your > image, the XPTitle data > is plain ASCII. As far as I know, ASCII data is not valid for this tag. > What software was used to > write this tag? > > - Phil > >
  Tue Aug 28 07:53:29 2007 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
From: EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org
I would report this problem to IDimager since it looks to me like a bug in the way they are writing the XPTitle value. - Phil
  Tue Aug 28 07:54:10 2007 EXIFTOOL [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'