I am facing an encoding issue I can’t seem to solve since I’m no real encoding expert…
I am entering XPKeywords information in some of my numerous images in Windows so that I could sort them out later on using these keywords.
I did a test on one of the images, adding some French accented chars such as é, è, à etc…
Adding a keyword containing ‘é’ for instance displays ok in my French Windows Explorer.
However accessing the tag using C#/VB displays “�”. I tried all sorts of conversions, googled for XPKeywords and found that XPKeywords seems encoded in UCS-2 but can’t still find any way to correctly decode this field so that I can display correct info.
Probably easy but cannot figure it out.
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
Thx
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Got this to work.
Encoding value used within the GetString function was defined as UTF-8. Changing it to Unicode did the trick.
Thanks to all for the heads up!