Charset in text output file

[Breddam]

Hi,

I'm using MapInfo/Mapbasic which only can write and understand ANSI- not UTF8.
I'm from Denmark and we have some special characters: ÆØÅæøå

From MapInfo/Mapbasic I send this user induced command: (i.e.)

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"exiftool.exe" -c "%%.6f" -Filename -DateTimeOriginal  "I:\NATUR & MILJ\KYSTbeskyttelse\Billeder\Storm_20190102_alfrida" > "(...)\exifout.txt" -charset Filename=cp1252

This produces a nice UTF8-file:
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======== I:/NATUR & MILJØ/KYSTbeskyttelse/Billeder/Storm_20190102_alfrida/Rødvig_IMG_1928.JPG
File Name                       : Rødvig_IMG_1928.JPG

Imported to MapInfo this info doesn't look nice:

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I:\NATUR & MILJØ\KYSTbeskyttelse\Billeder\Storm_20190102_alfrida\R+©dvig_IMG_1928.JPG
R+©dvig_IMG_1928.JPG

I also in addition tried using

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-charset exiftool=cp1252
which produces an ANSI file with the same odd characters. (And a lot other trial-and-error  )

I myself _could_ use UltraEdit to convert the UTF8-file but this is not an option for my users who want to have the feature to store some images from their I- or Android phones and get them georeferenced from MapInfo in a batch process. (And I'd rather not tell them to omit æøå in the file names)

What have I missed in the documentation? It seems like ExifTool is able to do the conversion - but I'm not...

Does anybody have heads up?

TIA
Søren Breddam

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Søren,

I have read your post a number of times and still don't understand what you are asking.  Is this an ExifTool question?

- Phil

[Breddam]

Hi Phil,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the codepage to ANSI in the output file 'exifout.txt'. (Now I've found out that it has to be Codepage850)
When I process the text-file i MapInfo I cannot use UTF.

I use ExifTool to extract coordinates and file names so that I can georeference all images in a folder. (I.e. Push button in MapInfo->Select Folder->A table containing all images appears in Mapinfo with their locations plotted and with a hotlink to the actual file)
It works fine except for images with special characters.

Regards Søren

[Phil Harvey]

Try this:

exiftool -charset cp850 -charset filename=cp1252 ...

-charset filename=cp1252 is the character set you use when specifying the filename.

-charset cp850 is the character set used for the output tag values.

- Phil

[Breddam]

Thanks Phil,

This works flawlessly :-D
Thanks a lot!

In the meantime I've prematurely launched the application to two users with a quickfix in form of CONVERTCP - a neat little program that addresses the 'nordic problem' with æ ø/ö å.
I can avoid that now.

If anybody wants the code to the Mapbasic app, then I'll share it.

Regards Søren