MinimServer failing to read special characters in m3u playlist files

[timster]

(21-04-2015 13:05)DavidHB Wrote:  

(21-04-2015 12:07)simoncn Wrote:  Your .m3u file is encoded as UTF-8. The M3U playlist specification requires a filetype extension of .m3u8 in this case (see this section).

Ah Let's see if I've got this straight.

I prepare my saved playlists on my desktop, using Playlist Creator. The playlists reference files on, and are saved to, the music library on the NAS. Presumably, as Playlist Creator is running under Windows, the .m3u files it creates use the Windows-1252 character set. MinimServer (using UTF-8 on the NAS) determines which character set is in use from the file extension, and thereby avoids incompatibility issues when it reads the playlist into its library. Is that correct?

David

Call me dim but if notepad++ can determine the encoding regardless of extension, why can't minimserver? Or am I missing something.