How to fix weird characters in captions
If your captions don’t look right because you see weird characters, your have a “character set” problem. Different computers use different “character sets” to show English, Polish, Russian, Chinese and other languages. However, picture captioning is not smart — it often does not know what language you used to write your caption.
If you’re seeing words like “itÕs” instead of “it’s”, then the software you used to add captions to your pictures did not use the most standard character set, called “UTF-8″.
For example, Photoshop CS2 on a Macintosh, uses “Mac OS Roman” characters. Because many photographers use Macintosh, the system will guess “Mac OS Roman”.
All this means that Windows users will have trouble if their captioning software doesn’t record which character set it uses. Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture use UTF-8, so both should work well.
This system tries its best to figure out what characters your captioning software used. If you see strange characters, the problem is your captioning software. Unless you can tell your software to save IPTC caption information as UTF-8, you’ll have to fix the captions in the Mimetic Gallery system, under the “Pictures” tab.