2000.01.19 12:26 "Unicode build of libtiff?", by Dirk Haun
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2000.01.19 17:42 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Richard J. Otter
I've wondered about this issue as well.
My understanding is that since the TIFF spec doesn't say anything about 2 byte wide characters, all text tags would have to be narrow for other software to read them.
It seems that any new image spec which includes text descriptions must support Unicode.
Richard Otter