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Topic: [TOS #6 x2: wrong forum then reposting] Support for UTF-8 playlists? (Read 1084 times) previous topic - next topic
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[TOS #6 x2: wrong forum then reposting] Support for UTF-8 playlists?

Hello everybody

[EDIT: I see this query would be better posted in the foobar2000 forum -- I'm taking it there]

I'm thinking of changing from WinAmp to foobar2000, but find that UTF-8 encoded playlists don't appear to be fully supported (they load fine in WinAmp).  I've got a playlist with multiple lines and some line appear to load correctly, e.g.:

E:\music\Composers Q-S\Strauss, Johann II\Eine Nacht in Venedig - Ouverture (Berlin PO, Harnoncourt, 1998)\02-Johann Strauss , Ouverture Eine Nacht in Venedig - Berliner Urfassung.flac

but others appear in the playlist as "?-?" e.g.

E:\music\Composers D-G\Debussy, Claude\Orchestral & Concertante\L'enfant prodigue (Royal PO, Beecham, 1959)\09-Claude Debussy , 'L'Enfant prodigue' - Scène lyrique.flac

The common feature of lines which so fail is that they contain non-ASCII characters. In the above line the "è" of "Scène lyrique" is represented by the byte sequence C3 A8 (which is correctly encoded I believe).

Does foobar2000 not support such playlists?

- Alex.