ExifTool version: 13.25
Using Git Bash, and to execute ExifTool just send a command to view all the metadata from all files in a folder:
exiftool -s .
... so instead of showing Cyrillic characters, it shows unreadable symbols.
ExifTool (cyrillic) 2025-03-23_065806.png
As an additional information I can say, that there was the same problem a long time ago, but then, with some update it's been fixed (maybe a year ago), and after couple of months after that - it's started showing unreadable symbols (instead of Cyrillic characters) again.
What can I do with that?
How to fix this?
Thanks.
You need to either set the shell character encoding to UTF-8, or use the ExifTool -charset option to specify the character set you are using.
See FAQ 10 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q10) and maybe FAQ 18 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q18).
- Phil