Unreadable symbols instead of Cyrillic characters ...

[smithQ]

ExifTool version: 13.25

Using Git Bash, and to execute ExifTool just send a command to view all the metadata from all files in a folder:

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exiftool -s .
... so instead of showing Cyrillic characters, it shows unreadable symbols.



As an additional information I can say, that there was the same problem a long time ago, but then, with some update it's been fixed (maybe a year ago), and after couple of months after that - it's started showing unreadable symbols (instead of Cyrillic characters) again.

What can I do with that?
How to fix this?

Thanks.

[Phil Harvey]

You need to either set the shell character encoding to UTF-8, or use the ExifTool -charset option to specify the character set you are using.

See FAQ 10 and maybe FAQ 18.

- Phil