wincmd.ini encoding issue?

[Profane0360]

Hello,

I run windows 11. I edited my wincmd.ini file with notepad and this had a strange side-effect. Various entries are not read anymore. I understood notepad messed with the file encoding. I normally use notepad++ within Total Commander.

What encoding should I save my configuration files to, to stay safe? wincmd.ini, wcx-ftp.ini, tcignore.txt and all files from redirectsection lines?

Also, may I do redirectsection to a file ending in .txt or I have to stay with ending in .ini?

Thank you!

[Dalai]

The Windows API can only process INI files with ANSI and UTF-16 (LE with BOM) encodings. How the redirected files are named is more or less irrelevant, but since they're are still INI files I'd stick with the .ini extension.

[Profane0360]

Thank you. My files (that were not read correctly) got saved as UTF8 with BOM.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately Windows 11 notepad sometimes saves a file as UTF-8 even if the loaded file had non-utf-8 characters in them (clearly a bug in notepad). To prevent this, save the file as UTF-16 LE.