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rkalla / exiftool

Enhanced Java Integration for Phil Harvey's ExifTool.
Apache License 2.0
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Add support for writing metadata #1

Open ghost opened 12 years ago

ghost commented 12 years ago

Reminder: Mathias (an exiftool user) that wrote in his own support for writing metadata values found that ExifTool doesn't write UTF8 values correctly unless -codedcharacterset=utf8 is passed to ExifTool.

Will need to do this automatically when this support is added.

boardhead commented 12 years ago

This is only necessary when writing IPTC values, but is dangerous if IPTC already exists because the existing encoding may be different (in which case writing CodedCharacterSet messes up existing information). It is difficult to automate a solution to fix this since the encoding of existing IPTC must be determined on a case-by-case basis (the IPTC specification really sucks in this regard, and software implementations are all over the board). Read the IPTC section of the ExifTool FAQ 10 for more information:

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html#Q10

locked-fg commented 12 years ago

Write support would be really really great!