System type: Windows 8.1
ExifTool version: 11.87
Specific command line: exiftool ss_nsmb_pre22.jpg > output.txt
Console output: none. output.txt attached
The Slices Group Name is not being decoded properly. It should be Japanese text, but it displayed like "ÉQÅ[ÉÄâÊñ _É}ÉäÉI VS ÉãÉCÅ[ÉW_01ëŒêÌëêå¥_01".
The "VS" and "_01" appear to be decoded properly.
This is odd. All of the high bytes in the "Unicode" text are zero (execept for one, which is 01). This is not what I would expect for Japanese characters (which should mostly be 0x30 in the high byte I believe). If anyone knows how this should be decoded, please let me know:
| | SlicesGroupName = ..Q..[............_..}......I VS ......C..[..W_01................_01
| | - Tag 0x0014 (86 bytes, ustr32[86]):
| | 1ae2: 00 c9 00 51 00 c5 00 5b 00 c9 00 c4 00 e2 00 ca [...Q...[........]
| | 1af2: 00 f1 00 a0 00 5f 00 c9 00 7d 00 c9 00 e4 00 c9 [....._...}......]
| | 1b02: 00 49 00 20 00 56 00 53 00 20 00 c9 00 e3 00 c9 [.I. .V.S. ......]
| | 1b12: 00 43 00 c5 00 5b 00 c9 00 57 00 5f 00 30 00 31 [.C...[...W._.0.1]
| | 1b22: 00 eb 01 52 00 ea 00 cc 00 eb 00 ea 00 e5 00 a5 [...R............]
| | 1b32: 00 5f 00 30 00 31 [._.0.1]
- Phil
This looks like Shift-JIS, not Unicode.
Interesting, thanks. According to the Adobe documentation, this should be Unicode. There is no mention of JIS, and I can't see anywhere that the code page / character set is specified. So I wouldn't know how to decide when this should be interpreted as JIS.
- Phil
Hm not sure. Maybe photoshop can output files like this if set to Japanese. This might be something for a user option rather than something that should/can be auto-detected.