Error with Characters like ÄÖÜ,ø etc. bzw. Umlaute

[AmelieW]

I recently Rockboxed my Sansa Clip Zip and I am pretty happy with it, but I can not play Songs with these common german characters in playlists or in the Database. I get no Errors by selecting them in the filemanager though.
I read that playlists have to be in UTF-8 for the characters to work, but even after I converted the playlists with Leafpad, it does not work either.
I am a huge music consumer so this would really affect my flow of enjoying music.
Thanks in advance for any help.

[bluebrother]

I read that playlists have to be in UTF-8 for the characters to work, but even after I converted the playlists with Leafpad, it does not work either.

This isn't entirely correct.

If a playlist uses the file extension "m3u8" it is treated as playlist using utf8 encoding. If it uses the file extension "m3u" it is treated as playlist using the encoding as set in the Display / Default Codepage setting. So either save the playlist using the same encoding as set as Default Codepage or save them as utf8 using the extension "m3u8". I'd recommend using utf8 / m3u8 as playlist format -- m3u doesn't have an encoding specified while m3u8 has.

Most Linux distros use utf8 as default codepage these days so your playlist is likely to be already in utf8 encoding.