German Character Problem in folders

[Juana]

Hi,

searched through the forum and FAQs but couldn't find help there. 
I am using exif tool in batch mode on a windows 10 PC. Processing jpg, CR2, Tiff and RW2 images. Works fine btw  , exept:

If a Folder contains a german Charakter, the Folder is not processed.
e.g.
X:\München
("C:\EXIFTOOL\exiftool.exe" -keywords+="Winter" "X:\München\2")

If I change it to X:\Munchen (in .bat and the folder name) it works fine.
As the window disappears so quickly, I cannot read the error message, but I believe its something like "Error: not found"
München appears like that M³nchen.

Additionally, I cannot set any german Charakters (äöüß) in the metadata.

Is there a setting to make this work?


Best Regards Juana

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Juana,

Did you read this?

(This is also mentioned under point 1 of FAQ 10)

- Phil

[Juana]

Hi Phil,

thanx for the reply. Yes I did.

How would I put this in my batch?
(this is the snippet: C:\EXIFTOOL\exiftool.exe" -keywords+="Winter" "X:\München\2)
And: would it solve the problem with the folders?

Best Regards

Juana

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Juana,

I don't know about how Windows handles character encoding in .bat files.

The best solution is to use an ExifTool -@ argfile encoded in UTF-8 containing the directory name(s), and add -charset filename=utf8 to your command.

- Phil

[Juana]

Hi Phil,

thanx for giving me the right hint. The solution is to change the codepage to (1252 Latin).

Just add this as first row of the batch file:
chcp 1252

and it works perfektly.
Thanx again :-D (and for your great tool, I love it )

Best Regards

Juana

[Juana]

Hi, sorry, for digging this out again.

The folders with umlaut work perfectly :-), but

I read through all Faq and tried all options of other forum posts, but it still wont work:

No matter if I use the batch file or the command line itself, it is not possible to write the -title with an Umlaut.
I tried to change the codepage to Latin 1, Latin2 or UTF8. I tried to add -l, -codedcharacterset=utf8 or -charset iptc=utf8 (for iptc and exif). But St. Bartholomäus always ends up as St. Bartholom?us. I tried it on jpgs, RW2 and CR2, all the same.

what else could I try?

[StarGeek]

I tried to add -l

Try the -L option (uppercase, not lowercase L).

I have always had problems with windows and alternative characters, especially in batch files.  If the -L option doesn't work,  I usually just throw my hands up in despair and use the -E option and html entities.  For example:

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C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original -E -xmp:title="Ä, ä, Ë, ë, Ï, ï, Ö, ö, Ü, ü, Ÿ, and ÿ" y:\!temp\Test3.jpg
    1 image files updated

C:\>exiftool -g1 -a -s -xmp:title -L y:\!temp\Test3.jpg
---- XMP-dc ----
Title                           : Ä, ä, Ë, ë, Ï, ï, Ö, ö, Ü, ü, Ÿ, and ÿ

HTML online converter I just used for this.

[Juana]

The capital -L worked. Thank you so much!!!
Saved my weekend 

Just in case, to be on the safe side:

I write the wantet title in the HTML converter and use it with your command in the first line, correct?