# Creating Playlist from UTF-8 / Foreign Character Directories

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 9, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789 "2023-08-09T21:30:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rko31415)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789/1 "2023-08-09T21:30:26Z")

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I try to create a playlist from m:\ΩMusic and individual paths get encoded as m:\OMusic ... with no easy way to change it in Notepad++ (my preferred editor). Changing the encoding to UTF-8 means I also need to replace all the accented and umlauted characters in the filenames.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789/2 "2023-08-09T21:33:14Z")

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If you want to create a playlist in UTF-8 format use as extension `m3u8` instead of just `m3u`.

See also the documentation:

> **[Playlist – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/options/playlist/#filename-of-playlist)**
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> Documentation of Playlist configuration options. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

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**Author:** ![rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rko31415)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789/3 "2023-08-09T22:26:59Z")

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Thx. I forgot. I always wondered what the "8" stood for in m3u8 and now I know.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-from-utf-8-foreign-character-directories/61789/4 "2023-09-08T22:27:14Z")

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