# M3U8 (unicode character) support for playlist files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 18, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773 "2012-08-18T14:46:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@b-ry](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b-ry)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773/1 "2012-08-18T14:46:13Z")
By coincidence I just found out that .m3u playlist files don't support unicode characters. I was editing the tags of some albums of the Turkish artist Tarkan, and yes, there are a lot of unicode characters in those titles. After saving the album to a .m3u file, which I always do, a lot of tracks couldn't be found.
I tried to change one track in notepad and save that as Unicode but then the .m3u file doesn't work anymore. From Winamp it's possible to save that exact same album as a .m3u8 file, which solves the whole problem.
My question is: Wouldn't be a good suggestion to add the m3u8 support to MP3Tag?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773/2 "2012-08-18T15:26:06Z")
> [@b-ry](#):
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> ... to add the m3u8 support to MP3Tag?
You should update to a newer version than 2.49 (your signature).
See the change log
[http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html)
to find that this has been added in V2.50
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### Author:  [@b-ry](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b-ry)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773/3 "2012-08-18T15:33:50Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> You should update to a newer version than 2.49 (your signature).
> See the change log
> [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html)
> to find that this has been added in V2.50
Wow. and I thought I was pretty much up to date. 2.52 is out already.
Ah I remember; on another computer it is up to date.. Thanks for the info!
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### Author:  [@b-ry](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b-ry)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u8-unicode-character-support-for-playlist-files/13773/4 "2012-08-18T15:49:57Z")
Also playlists were created automatically with the format '00.%artist% - %album%.m3u'. Changed that too after the update and it works. Thanks again!