Missing charset conversion of metadata when exporting to PNG
Bug #1199204 reported by
Sebastián Puebla
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
In Progress
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Low
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jazzynico |
Bug Description
When Inkscape 0.48.4 exports a SVG file to PNG, it writes its metadata as 'tEXt' chunks containing UTF-8 strings instead of ISO 8859-1 text as defined by the PNG specification, section 11.3.4.3. This bug does affect to PNG files created via "Save as..." > "Cairo PNG file" since such files do not have any textual information.
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I'm wondering why we're using tEXt chunks instead of iTXt chunks which support compression and UTF-8
Reinvent specification page: http:// www.w3. org/TR/ PNG/#11tEXt
spuebla, would it be easy for you to make a patch supporting iTXt instead?