# \[X\] Unicode doesn't Work on Auto Playlist Gene
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368 "2006-05-28T12:38:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@siaush](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/siaush)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368/1 "2006-05-28T12:38:09Z")
When I load a album of chinese songs into mp3tag and I tried to generate a m3u file using mp3tag and the filenames inside the m3u file will be ????????.mp3
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368/2 "2006-05-28T12:51:25Z")
If I am not mistaken, M3U does not support unicode characters which is the reason why foobar2000 uses M3U8 files.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368/3 "2006-05-28T16:21:28Z")
Yup, exactly.
You can easily build a m3u8 export configuration using something like this $filename(m3u8,utf-8)$loop(%\_filename\_ext%)%\_filename\_ext%
$loopend()
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-doesnt-work-on-auto-playlist-gene/3368/4 "2018-12-28T14:16:44Z")
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