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Title: Warning: Some character(s) could not be encoded in Latin
Post by: lhb727 on February 25, 2017, 09:51:59 AM

This warning occur when I use special utf8 characters in the keywords tag. And special characters are translated with ? in the output image.
The problem is only with this tag, all other tags are corectly filled with special characters.

important part of the command: exiftool -charset UTF8 -lang cs -Subject="česky,nečesky" -sep "," Keywords+="česky,nečesky" -XPKeywords="česky,nečesky"

Exif tags in the output image is:

Code Select

Subject: česky,nečesky
Keywords: ?esky
Keywords: ne?esky
...

Version of exiftool: 10.36
OS: Fedora 24
LANG=cs_CZ.utf8

Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: Warning: Some character(s) could not be encoded in Latin
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 25, 2017, 11:22:34 AM

Keywords is IPTC. See FAQ 10 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q10) for details about how to handle special characters in IPTC.

- Phil

Title: Re: Warning: Some character(s) could not be encoded in Latin
Post by: lhb727 on March 07, 2017, 11:24:01 AM

Great it works! The magic is: -charset iptc=UTF8

Thank you very much!

Title: Re: Warning: Some character(s) could not be encoded in Latin
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 07, 2017, 11:49:33 AM

If you are using UTF8 encoding for IPTC, you should set -iptc:codedcharacterset=utf8 in the metadata. Then you won't need to specify the -charset option when reading.

- Phil

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