tandard metadata is encountered.  This feature
may be disabled by setting <code>$Image::ExifTool::MWG::strict = 0</code> in the
<a href="../config.html">ExifTool config file</a> (or from your Perl script when using the API).  Note
that the behaviour when writing is not changed:  ExifTool always creates new
records only in the standard location, but writes new tags to any
EXIF/IPTC/XMP records that exist.</p>

<p>Contrary to the EXIF specification, the MWG recommends that EXIF &quot;ASCII&quot;
string values