 be stored as UTF-8.  To honour this, the exiftool application
sets the default internal EXIF string encoding to &quot;UTF8&quot; when the MWG module
is loaded, but via the API this must be done manually by setting the
CharsetEXIF option.</p>

<p>A complication of the MWG specification is that although the MWG:Creator
property may consist of multiple values, the associated EXIF tag
(EXIF:Artist) is only a simple string.  To resolve this discrepancy the MWG
recommends a technique which allows a list of value