A year later I can reproduce the issue within VLC 3.0.16.
I should also admit that pressing Tab once or twice workarounds this yet it is quite annoing.
I'm using set of video-lessons for coding nowadays. My scenario is like this: - load set of videos from the folder for the next topic to study to VLC (secondary display), - choose the particular video-file using VLC built-in playlist, - switch VLC to full-screen mode and develop the code (I have Vis...
Thanks. Issue was solved for me after I've re-saved all my MP3s with MP3tag.
In fact "ID3v2.3 UTF-16" was chosen by default but it didn't help.
In my case enabling option "APEv2" in "Write" section did the trick!
Quite considerable part of my MP3 collection does contain Cyrillic chars in tags (Title, etc). Those titles looks just fine in both Windows Explorer [1] and in Sony Walkman MP3 player (model:NWZ-A826) [2]. But in VLC player 2.2.2 [3] playlist there are "gibberish chars" instead of Cyrillic...