ñ (spanish character): add to playlist not possible

[surfer]

As far as i can see the extension "m3u8" is not supported by any other app than foobar2000 until now.

on the other hand "m3u" is practically a standard and it's at least a pity that only reading of it seems to be fully supported by rockbox.

Making Rockbox write .m3u-files using the current code page isn't difficult to add as such, but I'm not sure how to handle the case where the file name can't be fully represented in the current code page...

I hope you won't give up thinking about it :-)

[Llorean]

I think the point you're missing is that the fact that there isn't a standard way to handle m3u files containing special characters and that is the problem here. It's not Rockbox lacking support, but merely a difference in implementation on something that doesn't have a proper standard so that everyone can be "on the same page" as it were.

m3u8 is just an m3u known to be UTF-8, making the job a good deal easier.

[surfer]

Foobar2000 does support .m3u8, it's just a bit picky about the format. The file must contain a BOM and the path separator char must be "\"...

No, it is not necessary for the separator to be "\". It was my mistake to still use an exported playlist from mediamonkey(m3u) for testing which i renamed to "m3u8" and added a track with the character ñ afterwards.

the result was that this playlist was still saved with the coding "8 Bit" instead of "UTF-8" and "ñ" instead of "ñ" in the title of the added song which i noticed when i opened the playlist in the text editor and and took a look in the coding options.

After changing the coding to "UTF-8" and saving the playlist in the editor the "ñ" became "ñ" again and i can open it in the foobar2000 without problems.

And even more interesting: renaming the playlist to "m3u" does not seem to make any difference for rockbox. When the playlist is a UTF-8 one i can add the tracks with special characters as well and they do not get change, and there is no problem to import or open it in mediamonkey either :-)

Thanks a lot once more for your help!