It turns out that TCCLE (and subsequent TCC pay versions 13 and 14) can create descript.ion files in various encodings including UTF-16LE. Unfortunately when TOTALCMD 8.01 encounters a UTF-16LE descript.ion file it does two things: 1) it doesn't show file comments; 2) if you edit (F2) any file comment, the existing descript.ion file gets corrupted with no visual evidence in the filelist, which shows the new comment, but with disastrous results for existing TCCLE comments.
Reproducing this issue:
There are various methods to create a UTF-16LE encoded descript.ion file with TCCLE, the simplest one is to:
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mkdir newFolder
cd newFolder
option //UnicodeOutput=Yes
echo.>commentThisFile
describe commentThisFile /D"some comment"
Tested on WinXP SP3 and Win7 SP1, English x32