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Topic: Encoding problems in saved M3Us or in Default.m3u

It happens with any non-"regular English characters," it would seem.

At first, I noticed that it would happen with Asian characters, but then I tried it with French characters (accents) and it wouldn't work either.

e.g.,

好.mp3

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Re: Encoding problems in saved M3Us or in Default.m3u

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Re: Encoding problems in saved M3Us or in Default.m3u

What the...?

After renaming a saved M3U (which, as mentioned above, has no encoding problems) to Default.m3u then replacing Default.m3u with this one, there's no longer encoding problems with Default.m3u between launches.

And even after deleting Default.m3u (such that a new one would be created), it's still fine.

What the heck???

Maybe my Default.m3u's encoding got screwed up before. Perhaps that's what happened?

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Re: Encoding problems in saved M3Us or in Default.m3u

Cog uses Apple's built-in guessing mechanism when loading the file. If the guessing fails it tries UTF-8, CP1251 (Windows's butchered version of Latin1), and finally Latin1.

When saving it always uses UTF-8.

It looks like perhaps you found some combination that messed with Apple's guessing. If it happens again, send me a copy of the m3u (Preferably in a zip, to stop any potential email-mangling) and I'll check it out.