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;