Interesting post on how flickr deals with character encoding in photo metadata
At flickr, there are quite a few photos and you can browse the site in 8 different languages, including Korean and Chinese. Common metadata such as title, description and tags can be pre-populated based on information contained in the image itself, using what is commonly called EXIF information. So, it makes sense to implement this with respect to language and, above all, alphabet/character encodings.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog ยป A Chinese puzzle: Unicode and EXIF metadata parsing.
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