This topic was discussed and resolved on our discord. The error was that the paths did not include their file extension.
Please people make sure you use the patcher correctly, then it will work as described and is in fact very easy. ^^
You can download the latest version 1.4.13 of CfgBinEditor to see that encoding toggle.
Release: https://github.com/onepiecefreak3/CfgBinEditor/releases/tag/1.4.13
This won't be fixed in Kuriimu since support for it ended years ago. And Kuriimu2 does no longer support cfg.bin. There is a dedicated tool for this, called CfgBinEditor.
If anything, that tool would need to be patched. However, this is not an...
There is no reason to incorporate the patch into the cia itself. Also, the code.bin is patched to read the patch.cpk from a specific luma folder on the SD card, so even if you could get it all incorporated you couldn't just put the patch.cpk as...