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    Requested An option to choose comments format -- ANSI or Unicode

    Old versions of IrfanView wrote comments in ANSI. New versions write comments only in Unicode.
    I have a lot of images with ANSI comments. Yes, I may set the option "Old comment is ANSI" and my old comments are displayed correctly.
    But if I edit them -- they re-saved in Unicode, and thus displayed as garbage until I switch the option to "Old comment is Unicode".
    The "Automatic" value for this option in most cases works incorrectly.
    Thus I always have to choose this option for almost every file to see comments correctly.
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    To fix this I either have to:
    1. Convert all comments to Unicode. This is not desirable because many other utilities use ANSI. And I haven't found an application which may convert all comments in batch.
    2. Do not add comments using IrfanView. Or do not use IrfanView for viewing. It is not desirable too...

    My suggestion: add an option that controls how the comments saved -- "ANSI" or "Unicode".

    Thank you.
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