# Playlist and Unicode tags problem

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-and-unicode-tags-problem/2997
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 4, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-and-unicode-tags-problem/2997 "2006-03-04T09:15:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![jumbohotdog](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jumbohotdog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jumbohotdog)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-and-unicode-tags-problem/2997/1 "2006-03-04T09:15:08Z")

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Hi, I'm having a problem creating m3u playlists with Unicode tagged mp3s. I get ??? in the m3u file when I open it in notepad. It doesn't seem to be writing the filename correctly into the file. Can someone help me with this? Thanks

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-and-unicode-tags-problem/2997/2 "2006-03-04T09:48:24Z")

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The characters in a m3u files are written in the system codepage (this is by design and not a limitation of Mp3tag). Apparently, the characters from your tags/filenames are not available in this codepage.

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-and-unicode-tags-problem/2997/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:40Z")

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