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Zenphoto cannot decode EXIF IPTC in UTF-8

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I like to centralize my maintenance of image description in IDimager and let Zenphoto to extract the information from the image EXIF IPTC.  Recently, after upgrading to latest Zenphoto 1.2.5, I found the Zenphoto could not decode the UTF-8 encoded image description from EXIF IPTC anymore as before.  Finally, I realized I stupidly forgot to set a Zenphoto parameter which I did before.  The parameter can be located via Zenphoto admin page => options => image => IPTC encoding.  Change it from Western European (ISO) to UTF-8.  Then, it works again!  There is another parameter on admin page => options => general => charset which has already been set as Unicode (UTF-8) by default.  But this setting alone will not help to properly decode the UTF-8 encoded character in image EXIF IPTC.

Written by herman

June 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Posted in Computing

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