Metadate Analyst: FileName encoding not specified - is it an issue?

[Rene Toepfer]

If I run the metadata analyst the warning "FileName encoding not specified" appears.
I have set IPTC and EXIF encoding at the settings to default. As per help [1] IM, resp. Exiftools, considers UTF8 if no entry for character encoding is found.

Is above mentioned warning an issue and how can I set the entry for the encoding? Metadata panel? If so, which one?


[1] https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/rmh_config_metadata.htm

[Mario]

Just ignore it. Non-specified encodings are pretty normal. Especially for older files with legacy IPTC data, EXIF data written by cameras etc.
ExifTool makes this a warning, not an error. Unless you deal with Chinese, Thai, Kanji, Czech, Russian or other character sets in your files which were written without specifying the character set (encoding) you will not see any trouble.

Don't mess with the character set encodings in IMatch. These settings exist only for VERY specific situations (to fix damage done with certain downstream systems). Users should never change these settings without knowing exactly why and set them back to the defaults after processing the files with the broken encodings. Broken, not missing!