Rename from text files needs to be in UTF-16

[john1941]

I built a file with Notepad++.
It had the old filename a pipe new filename.

Import rename-pairs was under the Action tab, not under the File tab.

BRU would not take the file, although it's suffix was txt. BRU said it was invalid.

I checked Notepad++ and the file's encoding was ANSI.
I used Notepad++ to convert the file to UTF-16 BE BOM.
IT WORKED

Notepad++ had the option to convert to UTF-16 LE BOM. I did not try it.
It seems that Notepad created txt files in ANSI encoding. I do not know, the why.

After along day, I had a little knowledge of Notepad, very little knowledge of Regex, and finally found how to make the file compatible with Bulk Rename.
I now have 256 renamed MASH.mp4 files.

Thanks for the ability.

[therube]

(I'm not really certain about such things, as encoding, but...)


I created an, rather, I saved a BOM file, "as ANSI" (not in Notepad++), & the resultant file had each character in the file separated by a NUL character.

That file would not load (as Rename Pairs) in BRU.

I created an ANSI file, that was "ANSI", that did not have said NUL's between each character, & that file did load into BRU, as expected.

[JMukundu]

Fact at least on my machine is that rename button is disabled. Converting t utf 16 did not work either. The software developers did not even ention any UTF 16 issue