IPTC Keyword encoding question

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It seems we have a misunderstanding here, me explanation was a bit short because I have been through this too many times. :roll_eyes:

I can not offer any solution in darktable except to avoid any special characters. Maybe someone comes up with a solution that can be scripted in Lua.

The “tagging” part is meant to be done with exiftool (or equivalent tools), writing a tag into the IPTC metadata section inside the file that sets the encoding. This is a harmless process as no other data in the image needs to be changed. I have not used ExiftoolGUI for many many years, so I can not help you there. But the commandline for a folder of jpgs could be as simple as this:

exiftool '-IPTC:CodedCharacterSet=UTF8' *.jpg
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But keep in mind that that’s only needed when you insist on using IPTC tags in an IIM metadata section, not when you use the IPTC tags in an XMP section or sidecar (and as I understood it, , recommend use is XMP anyway, IIM is kept for compatibility reasons).

And while avoiding special characters is a possiblity, it is a severe limit for most languages (characters like “œæéåñij”)

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