Kevin M

that's a really odd hang. when running on the command line the command doesn't hang?

@OdyX while this fixes the actual hanging, it leaves zombie processes of the exiftool launcher on Windows. See https://oliverbetz.de/pages/Artikel/ExifTool-for-Windows to understand what the default self-extracting Perl Packager does. I recall...

@nitmws interesting observation, and thanks for the details report. Can you attach a file with these EXIF tags so I can analyze further whether using exiftool (utility) with different parameters...

it's taken me awhile to get back to this... but after thinking it over, while this could potentially be a script-breaking change for downstream users, it's just the better thing...

After reading through the documentation it's still debatable whether to add the flag or not... the current design of PyExifTool makes minimal changes to the default Exiftool output. There's already...

I'm still thinking about your suggestion above... I am debating whether to add this helper function to `ExifToolHelper` or `ExifToolAlpha`. The whole description of it is an add-on to the...

> Can a parameter set by such a function be overridden by the *params? The `-G` parameter is a good starting point but for the IPTC properties a `-G1` is...

This might be related to the fs encoding stuff which I had a lot of trouble with early on. I'm going to try to replicate this issue when I have...

Ok, I can replicate this issue... question, why are you using `pathlib` and `os.path` at the same time?! after renaming a file to `ㅍ휸ㅇ류.JPG` , I can replicate the crash......

This is more of an encoding bug. I don't really know what codepage or encoding is being used. Does it work on the command line? perhaps try exiftool's forums