utf-8 image meta data with metadata extractor

Yesterday I updated the developer branch of readImageMetadata on github. I created this project when I was writing the last post read image meta data with java.

Two lines of code

" tag.getDescription: " + tag.getDescription() + "\n" +
" directory.getString(tag.getTagType(), \"UTF-8\"): " + directory.getString(tag.getTagType(), "UTF-8") + "\n"

were added to App.java that uses Metadata Extractor library. Reason for that were errors I experienced with some  image meta data that contain german umlauts like öüäÖÜÄ etc. .

directory.getString(tag.getTagType(), "UTF-8")

The line of code above extracts image meta data with correct umlauts. This is just a quick solution for the umlaut issue. Although this worked for my smoke tests I’m not sure this is a solid solution.

Anyway, it’s one way to read at least some utf-8 image meta data. Do you have any experience with image meta data that contain none ASCII characters?