Umlauts trouble

[fotoschubser]

Hi,

I want to create a simple table with some meta data of all my photos.
Unfortunately I stumble over the umlauts.

Working with the windows cmd I observe the following behavior:

When I run

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exiftool.exe -r -filepath -filename -T "\\share\photos"

the filepath for all files with umlauts in the path is not printed into the table. (e.g. for "März").

So specifically e.g.

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exiftool.exe -r -filepath -filename -T "\\share\photos\2018\03-M*"
results in:

-   01.jpg
-   02.jpg
-   03.jpg
...

Whatever I tried with inserting "-charset filename=utf8|latin|latin2" or "-charset utf8|latin|latin2" did not help.

Interestingly running the command

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exiftool.exe -r -filepath -filename -T "\\share\photos\2018\03-März"

results in:

FileName encoding not specified.  Use "-charset FileName=CHARSET"
\\share\photos\2018\03-März\01.jpg   01.jpg
\\share\photos\2018\03-März\02.jpg   02.jpg
\\share\photos\2018\03-März\02.jpg   03.jpg
...

But I can't find out what charset exiftool is internally using in this case.

Any help appreciated.

Kind regards
fotoschubser

[Phil Harvey]

That is unfortunate, but not particularly surprising.

Using wildcards with Unicode filenames is a problem (see Common mistakes 2f).

The FilePath tag relies on the Cwd::abs_path() library function, and it is not surprising if this doesn't handle Unicode characters properly.

Honestly, there isn't much I can do about this because the support for Windows Unicode file names in Perl is really lacking.

- Phil

[fotoschubser]

Thanks Phil,

In parallell I found

FilePath - Does not support Windows Unicode file names
source: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Extra.html

So now I'm using "directory" instead, which works fine.

But still: how comes that exiftool.exe -r -filepath -filename -T "\\share\photos\2018\03-März" works properly?
But not exiftool.exe -r -filepath -filename -T "\\share\photos\2018"
At lease there is no intended wildcard, maybe it's internally used and not obvious.

BR
fotoschubser

[Phil Harvey]

I can't answer that.  I don't know the inner workings of the CWD module.

- Phil