# \[X\] Playlist with non-ANSI filename fails

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [May 8, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769 "2008-05-08T14:25:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/1 "2008-05-08T14:25:33Z")

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If I save a playlist having a track whose filename has a non-ANSI character such as ₫ , and then load the playlist, Mp3tag fails to load the file. Looking in the playlist shows Mp3tag has replaced the character by ? .

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/2 "2008-05-10T07:27:12Z")

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As far as I know, M3U files have to contain ANSI filenames only, that is why foobar2000 for example introduced M3U8 files that can contain unicode characters. I will let Florian decide whether this is a bug or not.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/3 "2008-05-10T10:42:11Z")

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> [@Sebastian Mares](#):
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> As far as I know, M3U files have to contain ANSI filenames only

Says where?

> [@Sebastian Mares](#):
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> that is why foobar2000 for example introduced M3U8 files that can contain unicode characters.

Odd, since .FPL covers it fine.

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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: [May 10, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/4 "2008-05-10T17:34:09Z")

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M3U uses ISO 8859-1 (see [Wikipedia \> M3U](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U)). If you need full Unicode support, you can mimic the M3U format easily using Mp3tag's export feature.

FPL is foobar2000's own playlist format which was designed to handle Unicode without problems.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/5 "2008-05-10T20:58:22Z")

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> [@Florian](#):
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> M3U uses ISO 8859-1

Yup, that fits with report! 😉

I suggest it would be better for Mp3tag to give an error rather than create a broken .m3u playlist.

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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: [December 28, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-playlist-with-non-ansi-filename-fails/6769/6 "2018-12-28T14:23:02Z")

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