Character problems
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Mon, 08/23/2010 - 21:19
Rocambole
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I live in Norway and write IPTC info in Norwegian. Norwegian has three characters that are non-English, the aelig, oslash and aring characters. When I input headlines and captions etc. using DBGallery everything works fine and the Norwegian characters are displayed like they should:
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 07:52
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Rocambole
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Re: Character problems
Too bad. I liked the DBGallery and its search engine but if I have to rewrite more than 10 000 headlines and captions to use it I think I will have to look for another solution.
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:47
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Re: Character problems
We know exactly where the problem is. It's not MySql...you can enter and retrieve them. It's just the piece that does the photo import and reading of the IPTC metadata. I'll check with development to see if this fix can be expedited.
Best regards,
Glenn
Sun, 08/29/2010 - 21:18
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Rocambole
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Re: Character problems
That would be fine! I have noticed that accented characters are garbled too. For example caf
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 08:22
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Rocambole
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Re: Character problems
I found and purchased another software capable of handling special characters.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:04
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Rocambole
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I decided to give DBGallery
I decided to give DBGallery another chance but to my regret I see that almost two years later the character problem remains unsolved.
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Hi Rocambole,
Your character problem has been identified by a few other trial users as well. Unfortunately there isn't a solution at the moment.
Best regards,
Glenn