Multi-Rename Tool > Context menu icon > Edit names: an option to predefine temp list file encoding

[beb]

Multi-Rename Tool > [Context menu icon] > Edit names: the temporary list file is always ANSI.
Each time I use this function (which I do a lot), I have to control the encoding to avoid data loss (filenames corruption).
Please make it configurable (ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode UTF-16 LE).
There are already good examples of how the Total Commander handles encodings for similar temporary list files:

%UL,%UF like %L and %F, but with UTF-8 Unicode list file (with byte order mark)
%WL,%WF like %L and %F, but with a UTF-16 Unicode list file (with byte order mark).

It would be great to have something like that for the in-title scenario.
It could be in GUI and/or in INI:

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MultiRenameToolEditEncoding=ANSI|UTF-8|UTF-16 LE

Thank you.

Edit: is always ANSI

[Fla$her]

What kind of data loss are we talking about? If there are Unicode characters in the names, this list is saved in UTF-16.

[Horst.Epp]

As Fla$her said, the temporary file is UTF-16.
You can also configure a different editor, if you don't like Notepad.

[beb]

2Fla$her, 2Horst.Epp
Yes, you are right, it turns out the list is saved in UTF-16 when the Unicode character(s) is detected in the filename(s). Thanks.
Well, OK then, I'm changing my wording while the idea remains the same:
I would like to have an option to enforce a preferable encoding of my choice no matter what the filename might be, the same way it works in case of %UL, %WL.

[Horst.Epp]

2Fla$her, 2Horst.Epp
Yes, you are right, it turns out the list is saved in UTF-16 when the Unicode character(s) is detected in the filename(s). Thanks.

No, in my tests, there were no Unicode characters in the file names involved.

[beb]

2Horst.Epp
That's not the way it forks for me:
In my case, unless I pick up some weirdest Unicode characters from a Wikipedia page for the involved filenames, the temporary list file is always ANSI.