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Just passing by to say that in VLC 3.0.11 this is still an issue, I'm held back from sending a bug report because this seemed to be fixed in VLC 4.0 for what I tested back in the day. But the day VLC 4.0 will arrive still feels so far away

Ho-ly Damn.! I swear this was working since VLC 3.08 came out! Just tried it again today and seems to have stopped working! I even have the playlist files that it created a couple days ago when I upgraded VLC and was working with those characters.. now it can't create playlists with the right encodi...

We already have an option when we right-click a file in VLC to "Show Containing Directory...", my suggestion is to use that option and rename it to something like "Show in Containing Directory..." or "Select in Folder..." and it should take all the files selected in VLC...

Update: (Doesn't seem like I can edit the post.? Is that possible? Am I dumb?) Anyways, did a bit of a lot more testing and out of my modest sample of musics with weird characters it seems that VLC only fails to encode these two characters in playlists with relative paths: "[" and "]&...

Past three days have been hell, I have a folder full of music, a lot of them with special characters, all I want is a playlist with a relative path that can read special characters, and ended up with a giant list of weird VLC behaviour with playlists.. Even have a table to compare Windows with Linux...