Vista - Unicode byte-order bug in EXIF "User Comment" field?

Vista Ultimate 64, fully patched.

When I use Windows Explorer (Properties/Details) to edit the Comments
field, this sets both the custom "XP Comment" field as well as the
standard EXIF "User Comment" field.

The Unicode that is written to the EXIF "User Comment" field is always
little-endian, which is a bug if the EXIF byte-ordering for the image is
big-endian.

The consequence is that the behavior of third-party apps handling the
User Comment field correctly is unpredictable--and unless they've
implemented a workaround (like exiftool)--broken.

IrfanView will insert a space between every character, PowerEXIF
displays gibberish, while BetterJPEG gives up completely and treats the
field as an empty string.

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

Michael Roper