find files by text in file -> unicode

[Plus200]

When looking for a string in file, sometimes I look for the string in several files, some of them are Unicode, some are not.

This causes me to search twice each time, while I don't really care how the file is saved.

Can we have option to search "whatever encoding"?

[ghisler(Author)]

I think that the "text search" plugin can do that:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/TextSearch.html

[Plus200]

The "plugin" tab in "find files" can't handle such searches.

At the moment I have to use "RegEx buddy" to do that.

Why is the search limited per encoding, anyway?

[MVV]

Why is the search limited per encoding, anyway?

It simply searches only one pattern per time. Different encodings would require to search multiple patterns in every file.

[Plus200]

So an option "search all encodings" would be most helpful.

I I search sub-directories recursively, I want to let it run and bring me everything while I do something else.