Arabic characters in IPTC profile not extracted.

[rmiglani]

Hi all,

I have a few JPEG files that have IPTC attributes embedded in them. I am using the following command to extract these attributes.

convert <filename> IPTCTEXT:<outputfile.iptc>
convert <filename> 8BIMTEXT:<outputfile.iptc>

The problem is that some of the files contain Arabic characters. The output file that is created for these images have junk characters instead of proper Arabic characters.

Is there support for these characters in ImageMagick?

Else how may I be able to extract the proper IPTC attribute values from these images?

[magick]

Post a URL to one or two of your images so we can download them and reproduce the problem. Thanks.

[rmiglani]

Please find the following links to 3 such images.

Thanks a lot for your help.

http://img263.imageshack.us/i/aaa07071107alkindi.jpg/
http://img139.imageshack.us/i/aaa15111007airshow.jpg/
http://img146.imageshack.us/i/aaa19111107airshow.jpg/

[magick]

We can reproduce the problem you posted and will have a fix in the next point release of ImageMagick within a few days. Thanks.

[rmiglani]

Thanks a lot for your help and support. Looking forward to the next point release.