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Posted: **04 Dec 2005 10:30**

M3U's play fine when reffering to files with only ASCII letters. But a similar M3U containing umlauts like the one below won't play at all. The files play well when added individually, however.

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:213,Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich gehe jetzt
[01] Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich gehe jetzt.mp3
#EXTINF:822,Einstürzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
[02] Einstürzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile.mp3
#EXTINF:273,Einstürzende Neubauten - Ein leichtes leises Säuseln
[03] Einstürzende Neubauten - Ein leichtes leises Säuseln.mp3
#EXTINF:373,Einstürzende Neubauten - Selbstportrait mit Kater
[04] Einstürzende Neubauten - Selbstportrait mit Kater.mp3
#EXTINF:241,Einstürzende Neubauten - Boreas
[05] Einstürzende Neubauten - Boreas.mp3
#EXTINF:555,Einstürzende Neubauten - Ein seltener Vogel
[06] Einstürzende Neubauten - Ein seltener Vogel.mp3
#EXTINF:224,Einstürzende Neubauten - Ozean und Brandung
[07] Einstürzende Neubauten - Ozean und Brandung.mp3
#EXTINF:249,Einstürzende Neubauten - Paradiesseits
[08] Einstürzende Neubauten - Paradiesseits.mp3
#EXTINF:280,Einstürzende Neubauten - Youme & Meyou
[09] Einstürzende Neubauten - Youme & Meyou.mp3
#EXTINF:246,Einstürzende Neubauten - Der Weg ins Freie
[10] Einstürzende Neubauten - Der Weg ins Freie.mp3
#EXTINF:315,Einstürzende Neubauten - Dead Friends (Around the Corner)
[11] Einstürzende Neubauten - Dead Friends (Around the Corner).mp3
#EXTINF:223,Einstürzende Neubauten - Grundstück
[12] Einstürzende Neubauten - Grundstück.mp3

Posted: **07 Dec 2005 15:52**

Should have mentioned this is with VLC for Win 0.8.4 on XP SP2, BTW....

Posted: **29 Apr 2006 17:20**

Same issue persists in 0.8.5-test3: Similar m3u's with only "english" characters play fine, while this containing letters with umlauts won't play at all. This should really be fixed....

Posted: **29 Apr 2006 18:59**

There's little chance that we can arrange a fix within the 0.8.5 release time frame.

You should ensure your playlist is encoded in UTF-8 instead rather than Windows-1252.

Posted: **29 Apr 2006 19:34**

There's little chance that we can arrange a fix within the 0.8.5 release time frame.

You should ensure your playlist is encoded in UTF-8 instead rather than Windows-1252.

Yes. Thanks. It works with UTF-8 encoded M3U files, both DOS (CR/LF) and UNIX (LF) filetypes, and both with or without BOM. That's good. The original (problematic) playlist are Winamp-compatible M3U as written by EAC.

Posted: **30 Apr 2006 22:53**

This is one of the main problems with M3U, and a big reason why it should be deprecated.

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VLC won't parse unicode M3U's?

VLC won't parse unicode M3U's?