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

[simoncn]

(30-09-2015 15:43)Manul Wrote:  Thanks for your answer! I've investigated some more: The files are rsynced from my Mac to the NAS. Interestingly, when I do an 'ls | hexdump -C' on the AFP-mounted NAS directory on my Mac, 'ü' is encoded as 75 cc 88 (composed) - same as in the playlist file. Doing the same on the NAS directly or on the Pi shows 'ü' as c3 bc (decomposed). Somehow AFP seems to do some on-the-fly conversion here...

Actually, 75 cc 88 is decomposed ("u" + "combining diaresis") and c3 bc is composed ("u with diaresis").

I have tested the fix and it seems to work. It should be available soon in the next update. This will mean that users don't need to be concerned about the murky depths of how Unicode represents accented characters and how this is handled by various file systems.