What I want to do

I have some AI generated pictures, the parameters used for the creation are stored in the User Comments (Exif SubIFD / User Comment). I want to read this data.

The Problem

The comments from some pictures looks like Chinese. This is unexpected, I also use a command line tool, exiftool, and this shows all comments in English.

The Error in Detail

I reversed the byte order for the illegible file, and got the English text. So it is a byte order problem.

I locked into TagDescriptor.getEncodedTextDescription(int tagType). This function uses always UTF-16LE for Unicode.

The function TiffReader.processTiff sets the correct byte order in the reader, but this information is not used. I have no idea, what is the preferred way to pass this information to the TagDescriptor? Implementing a switch between UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE would be easy.

Thanks for reading