diff -Naur exif.orig/exif.class.php exif/exif.class.php
--- exif.orig/exif.class.php	2010-04-27 15:13:13.153452779 -0300
+++ exif/exif.class.php	2010-04-27 15:11:32.465634286 -0300
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     $info = array();
     foreach ($arTagNames as $tagName) {
       if ($tagName['section'] == "iptc") {
-        $info[$tagName['section'] .'_'. $tagName['tag']] = $arSmallIPTC[$tagName['tag']];
+        $info[$tagName['section'] .'_'. $tagName['tag']] = utf8_encode($arSmallIPTC[$tagName['tag']]);
       }
     }
     return $info;