MinimServer failing to read special characters in m3u playlist files

[simoncn]

(21-04-2015 13:52)timster Wrote:  Call me dim but if notepad++ can determine the encoding regardless of extension, why can't minimserver? Or am I missing something.

As DavidHB has said, the .m3u8 extension is required if the contents are encoded in UTF-8 (see this page). The .m3u extension means that the Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 character set is being used. If AudioStation and MediaServer can't read .m3u8 files containing UTF-8 characters, this is a problem with these products.