From ecae9dc6eba437d9ef568e3b3b377932ff76f309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Mills <robin@clanmills.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:55:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Restored 0.27.2 "toString()" behaviour of
 Exifdatum.value().toString() for CommentValue.

---
 src/exif.cpp  | 12 ++++++++++--
 src/value.cpp |  4 ----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/exif.cpp b/src/exif.cpp
index 493fd20b..78c8ae08 100644
--- a/src/exif.cpp
+++ b/src/exif.cpp
@@ -226,8 +226,16 @@ namespace Exiv2 {
         if ( ti ) {
             fct = ti->printFct_;
             if ( ti->typeId_ == comment ) {
-              os << value().toString();
-              fct=NULL;
+                fct=NULL;
+                const Exiv2::CommentValue* cv = dynamic_cast<const Exiv2::CommentValue*>(&value());
+                Exiv2::CommentValue::CharsetId csId = cv->charsetId();
+                if ( csId != CommentValue::undefined ) {
+                    os << "charset=" << CommentValue::CharsetInfo::name(csId) << " ";
+                }
+                os << cv->comment();
+#if 0
+                os << "|| value().toString() = " << value().toString();
+#endif
             }
         }
         if ( fct ) fct(os, value(), pMetadata);
diff --git a/src/value.cpp b/src/value.cpp
index b96f7de3..99997822 100644
--- a/src/value.cpp
+++ b/src/value.cpp
@@ -548,10 +548,6 @@ namespace Exiv2 {
 
     std::ostream& CommentValue::write(std::ostream& os) const
     {
-        CharsetId csId = charsetId();
-        if (csId != undefined) {
-            os << "charset=" << CharsetInfo::name(csId) << " ";
-        }
         return os << comment();
     }