mutated vowel

[mike1950r]

Hello,

i'm new,
hello to everyone.

I have a problem:
Exiftool does not handle "mutated vowel" in File/Folder names,
such as german letters äöüÄÖÜ.

Thanks for assistance

Cheers mike

[StarGeek]

See FAQ #18 and try the options there.  Windows command line doesn't handle such characters very well.

Another option is this StackOverflow answer.  It was the only thing that worked for me but it may give problems in GUIs in older programs.

[mike1950r]

Thanks StarGeek for your fast answer.

Unfortunately I cannot get it working.

If I setup only one file everything is working fine even if the filename contents special characters.

The problem occurs, when I use wildcards.

I tried following in command prompt:

chcp 65001
exiftool -overwrite_original -UserComment="Test" -charset FileName=utf8 "D:\Bekannte\Dagmar Börner\*.jpg"

I get following answer:
Aktive Codepage: 65001.
Invalid filename encoding for D:/Bekannte/Dagmar B�rner/*.jpg
No matching files

What am I doing wrong?

Cheers Mike

[mike1950r]

sorry i forgot to say:

if I do this with one file
exiftool -overwrite_original -UserComment="Test" "D:\Bekannte\Dagmar Börner\DSC_0002.JPG"

the file gets updated alright, say the usercontent is written into,
but I get the error message:

Warning: FileName encoding not specified - D:/Bekannte/Dagmar B÷rner/DSC_0002.JPG
    1 image files updated

Hope this helps

cheers Mike

[mike1950r]

infact

"-charset FileName=Latin2" is doing the trick in front of the filename with german characters in it.

cheers mike