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When using M3U playlist, some special characters in file name are not read by VLC?

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La lecture du fichier a echoue:

VLC n'a pas pu ouvrir le fichier <<E:\Comedie\Kaamelott Livre 5\30 - Lavenement du

sanguinaire.avi >>.

Votre media d'entree ne peut etre ouvert:

VLC ne peut pas ouvrir

<< file:///E:/Com%C3%A9die%Kaamelott%20Livre%205/30%20-%20L%C2%92avenement%20d

u%20sanguinaire.avi >>. Verifiez les messages pour plus de details.

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Submitted by Hathy greave on Fri, 2012-08-17 21:46. Comment Id: 80329

Hi,

The file used here is encoded in Windows-1252, instead of ISO8859-1 or UTF-8. And there is no way to deal with it. Encode the files correctly.

For more:

The used M3U file includes byte value 0x92. As the file paths are clearly not UTF-8, VLC converts those from ISO 8859-1( Latin -1). And that is why the byte value 0x92 is interpreted as U+0092 that is a non-printable character. It does not reject the value but it can't print it.

Have you understood it? 

I think yes.

Hathy

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