[Libexif-devel] exif tool: argument of --set-value truncated to the 1st blank character

[Roberto C. <rob...@en...>]

Hello,
yesterday I was performing some experiments about putting image
descriptions to jpg pictures with exif tool, when I found out that they
are truncated to the first blank character (ascii 32).
For instance, if I type:
exif --tag='ImageDescription' --set-value="This is a test" --ifd=0
img.jpg
the image description written into the output file will be "This"
instead of "This is a test".
I see that gexif allows blank characters within image descriptions, I
believe exif's behavior is wrong in this.

The quickest patch I can think of is to comment lines 539 and 540 of
exif/main.c (the one released with exif 0.6).
I only wonder why they have been put there... is there any kind of value
set through "--set-value" that needs to be similarly truncated?

Cheers,
Roberto