For as long as I can remember, foobar2000 has never supported Unicode filenames in m3u playlists.
Is there a reason m3u playlists are saved in ANSI and not UTF-8?
it's by design. use m3u8 for unicode.
Searching for m3u unicode returns the article on Wikipedia as the first result, whose preview specifies that M3U8 is the Unicode-enabled version of the format. Is there any reason to keep this thread open?
>> Is there a reason m3u playlists are saved in ANSI and not UTF-8?
Looking at the Wikipedia page on M3U (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U), it seems that an M3U file is saved in the Windows-1252 format and not specifically as ANSI.
Looking at the Wikipedia page on Windows-1252 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252), it seems there is quite a variety of text available for insertion into the M3U document.
Question to the OP: is there a particular character or characters not available in Windows-1252 which you must use in your M3U document which made you post this thread?
I seem to remember trying m3u8 before and not getting it to work. I haven't tried it in years, so I guess that's good to know it actually does work. You can close this now.
@derty2:
Windows-1252 obviously doesn't support any characters from languages not based on the Latin alphabet.