Internal editor changing text encoding type - bug

I have been editing HTML UTF-8 files from the remote server for a long time and had no issue until recently, like v6.5.0/2 time frame. Now when I open the file, make a modification, save, reload in the browser, I get ?-diamonds around the edit. So I suspect there is a regression in properly setting encoding type in the editor.

The editor shows under Encoding "1252". Since I didn't have a problem before, I never checked this until now, so I can't say what it said before.

Windows 10, files created via Save As HTML from LibreOffice Writer.

And, if you try to change the encoding after saving in the editor, you get:

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Error
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Error loading file 'C:\Users\justin\AppData\Local\Temp\scp51482\home3\bereanb2\public_html\1Corinthians\notes\609-610_1Corinthians_7-27-25.html' using 'UTF-8' encoding.
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OK Help
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Thanks for your report. Can you post an example file? Downloaded (not edited) in binary mode from the server?

Also, what Default encoding do you have configured here?
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_pref_editor_internal

Default encoding is 1252 ANSI Latin I. Attached file is before uploaded to server - okay?

The diamonds usually show up after I edit the character before or after one of these: “ or †(double quotes).

The file has UTF-8 encoding.
So you need to use that when editing the file.
Once you have modified and saved the file using different encoding (Ansi), it becomes corrupted and trying to reload it with UTF-8 won't help.
If all your files are UTF-8, please configure it as the Default encoding in preferences.

Yes, I already stated the files were UTF-8. Behavior seems to have recently changed; that is why I reported this issue.

I don't know which file (of all the files that I edit) is what encoding. How can I know before editing? Why doesn't the editor detect and set appropriately?

I'm not aware of any relevant change. If you believe otherwise, can you please try to find out in version of WinSCP changed the behavior?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winscp/files/WinSCP/

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I have added a request for encoding detection improvement to the tracker:
Issue 2397 – Improve internal editor encoding autodetection
You can vote for it there.

Thank you, Martin. Even a way to know the encoding of a file would be very helpful.