Problem with UTF-8 in playlists (.m3u8 files)

[simoncn]

Thanks for this. On further investigation, the Unicode value in the "found file" trace message is correct and is written in this rather strange format to enable it to display any filenames that aren't in the correct encoding for the platform default charset.

I wasn't seeing this earlier because I was testing with a folder name (not a filename) containing an accented character.

I have now modified my test to use a filename containing an accented character. This produces the same messages that you are seeing but works correctly in a .m3u8 playlist.

It is possible that there is a problem with the contents of your .m3u8 file. Please gzip your .m3u8 file and attach it to a post here.