I couldn't find the standalone single EXE version of 13.11. Am I blind or something? I've had version 12.44 for years, it's a portable single EXE—but it can't handle Cyrillic, like with "-XMP:Title="ьнн / Miscellaneous."
how can i state my gratefulness for this tool as a signature, will try that next.
12.44 should be able to handle cyrillic if you get your shell character encodings correct. It is best to set your shell to UTF-8 and work in UTF-8 only.
Also, the 12.44 EXE isn't really stand-alone. It is a self-extracting archive that extracts itself to the temporary directory then runs from there. The current version skips the self-extraction step.
- Phil
See FAQ #18, problems with special characters on the Windows command line (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q18)