Version: 1.0.0~beta4-2 (using KDE 4.3.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages I think digiKam should have an option to ignore IPTC for both reading and writing. It can store only ASCII text anyway.
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
I join to this wish-request. This my "use case" for ignoring IPTC: After every time you write caption or add tag in non-english language (XMP support this), Digikam write it also to IPTC. But since IPTC don't support unicode, all you get is ???????? instead of caption/tag. So i have to do additional step after each caption/tag change - delete IPTC. It's really annoying. IMHO, adding option to ignore IPTC is really useful for every non-english speaking user of Digikam.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 277512 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 289300 ***
Fixed with #289300