Update TiffImageMetadata.java

[clagenna]

Due to some HEIC file converters to JPG longitude and latitude strings gets converted from UNICODE with wrong UTF-8 coding. e.g. North "N" have hex bytes hex:4e ef bf bd For that reason latitudeRef.trim().equalsIgnoreCase("n") fails. My suggestion is to use substring(0, 1) instead of trim()

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[garydgregory]

This doesn't look right to me and will break existing applications that have leading or trailing whitespace in that data.

Are you saying that some other app is creating bad data?

[clagenna]

Well, if it'so we can insert a trim() just before substring(). For the sake of completness I've used paintshop-pro to convert heic file to jpg. Il Mer 14 Mag 2025, 18:27 Gary Gregory ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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[garydgregory]

Hello @clagenna
Let me understand:

• you have a HEIC file
• you use PaintShopPro to convert it to a JPG
• you use Commons Imaging to read the JPG

Does the data start bad in the HEIC file?

Does PSP create a bad file?

Can you provide a unit test with each file that demonstrates the issue? Ideally the test should fail if the changes to 'main' aren't applied.

Ty.