The -L option is equivalent to "-charset Latin", "-charset Latin1" and "-charset cp1252". Type-specific details are given below about the special character handling for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, PNG, ID3, PDF, Photoshop, QuickTime, AIFF, RIFF, MIE and Vorbis information: EXIF: Most textual information in EXIF is stored in ASCII format (called "string" in the EXIF Tags documentation). By default ExifTool do