Special Characters appear wrong in Photoshop

[alexcel]

Hi:

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I enter info using PM 4.4.3, characters like á, é, í, ó, ú, commonly used in spanish, appear wrong in Bridge&Photoshop.

I've read a previous post on this topic about encoding formats, but you said that as PM writes XMP, Bridge&Photoshop should give priority to XMP over IPTC. But this isn't happening to me, as the characters appear totally wrong in Bridge and Photoshop

What can I do?

Thanks!!!

[Kirk Baker]

Hi:

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I enter info using PM 4.4.3, characters like á, é, í, ó, ú, commonly used in spanish, appear wrong in Bridge&Photoshop.

I've read a previous post on this topic about encoding formats, but you said that as PM writes XMP, Bridge&Photoshop should give priority to XMP over IPTC. But this isn't happening to me, as the characters appear totally wrong in Bridge and Photoshop

What can I do?

I don't think it is necessarily true that if an application supports both IPTC and XMP that it will prefer XMP over IPTC.  You can use the Mask/Unmask tool in Photo Mechanic and try masking out the IPTC (you can always unmask it later) and then open it up in Photoshop and see how it looks.  (Bridge often caches things it has "seen" before and doesn't always update itself so if it doesn't change the way things look it may mean that its cache is stale.)

HTH,

-Kirk