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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/functions_metadata.inc.php b/include/functions_metadata.inc.php
index 97724abc1..0727feb1e 100644
--- a/include/functions_metadata.inc.php
+++ b/include/functions_metadata.inc.php
@@ -102,9 +102,25 @@ function clean_iptc_value($value)
$value = trigger_event('clean_iptc_value', $value);
if ( ($qual = qualify_utf8($value)) != 0)
{// has non ascii chars
- $value = convert_charset( $value,
- $qual>0 ? 'utf-8' : 'iso-8859-1',
- get_pwg_charset() );
+ if ($qual>0)
+ {
+ $input_encoding = 'utf-8';
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $input_encoding = 'iso-8859-1';
+ if (function_exists('iconv') or function_exists('mb_convert_encoding'))
+ {
+ // using windows-1252 because it supports additional characters
+ // such as "oe" in a single character (ligature). About the
+ // difference between Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1: the characters
+ // 0x80-0x9F will not convert correctly. But these are control
+ // characters which are almost never used.
+ $input_encoding = 'windows-1252';
+ }
+ }
+
+ $value = convert_charset($value, $input_encoding, get_pwg_charset());
}
}
return $value;