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Phil,
I appreciate your patience with my dim wits :-) All is much clearer now.
As long as ExifTool is not translating the text, it is totally irrelevant what character set is ac
+tually used since the bytes are passed through unchanged.
Perhaps you might include some similar note in FAQ #10, to make it clearer we are not limited only to cp1252.
I am writing IPTC data to a jpg which has no previous IPTC data, only XMP; so my guess is that ExifTool handles the case of no internal data the same as if these existed and were of the same character set with the external ones.
Unfortunately, many IPTC tools cannot handle the notorious "ESC % G" sequence and fail to display utf-8 properly. I was very surprised to see the change in the default behaviour of ExifTool, but I am sure you had very sound reasons for it. It must be that the tide is turning :-)
Regards,
pdi
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