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Old 03-11-2008   #1 (permalink)
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EXIF:UserComment Unicode byte-order bug

Vista Ultimate 64, fully updated and patched.

When you use Windows Explorer (Properties/Details) to edit the Comments
field of an image with EXIF metadata, the Unicode that is written to the
standard EXIF "User Comment" field is always little-endian, even if the
EXIF byte order specified by the image is big-endian.

This renders unusable any third-party app that handles EXIF metadata
correctly. The only exception I know of is exiftool, which has coded a
workaround.

Is there a patch available for this bug? If not, is anyone working on
it? Aware of it?

Michael Roper
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