Bug 338229

Summary: THUMBDB : digiKam does not recognize pictures in albums with unicode (Korean) characters
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Joon Ro <joonhyoung.ro>
Component: Database-ThumbsAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, swatilodha27
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.10.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.0.0
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Description Joon Ro 2014-08-13 01:35:29 UTC
Pictures in an album is not recognized (generic thumbnail) if the album name consists of unicode characters. Once I change the name to English, digikam successfully generates picture thumbnails. 

Also, it seems the pictures' metadata are not read correctly - if I go to the Dates view, those pictures are categorized in one wrong date. (Again with generic thumbnails)
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2014-08-14 09:54:22 UTC
Which kind of album name do you use ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2014-08-14 09:55:35 UTC
If thumbs are not visible, can you show image preview (F3) or edit image (F4) ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 3 Joon Ro 2014-08-14 15:45:07 UTC
One of the example album name is "2008.12 종강" (without quotes).

I cannot show image preview (I get "Failed to load image") or edit it (just blank window shows up).
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2015-03-26 07:00:46 UTC
digiKam 4.7.0 for Windows is available :

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-4.7.0-1-win32.exe.mirrorlist

Please test and report.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 Joon Ro 2015-06-21 18:12:09 UTC
I just tested with digiKam 4.10.0 for Windows.

It seems it just cannot deal with any unicode characters in folder or file names.

For example, I just made a duplicate copy of a .jpg file that digiKam has read without any problem, and rename it to Հայաստան.jpg. digiKam showed me "Failed to load image".
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2015-07-06 07:38:05 UTC
digiKam 4.11.0 Windows installer is available for download :

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-4.11.0-win32.exe.mirrorlist
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2015-11-28 19:26:12 UTC
Do you use SQlite or Mysql database ?
Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2016-06-09 15:40:10 UTC
New digiKam 5.0.0-beta7 installer for Windows is available for testing :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7yq-xFihT0_SzhxVzF1RDhPbFE

Please report if problem remain with this version.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 9 swatilodha27 2016-06-25 11:54:01 UTC
Bug fixed with digiKam Version5.0.0-Beta7

Steps to reproduce:
1) Add new image in Test Album
2) Rename image to 여보세요.jpg
3) Picture thumbnail is generated.

Please try with the latest release.
Comment 10 swatilodha27 2016-06-25 11:56:44 UTC
I tried with other non Latin languages (Arabic and Japanese), picture thumbnail is still generated.