Can't play files with non-western characters in path

[mikeggsm]

Hi,

If I choose Winamp instead of the internal MM player in Options->Player, Winamp just receives "?" for every non-western (Japanese in my case) character in the filename or path, so Winamp can't find the file, nothing is played. The same files play fine with the internal MM player, and also in Winamp when I just click on them from Windows Explorer.

But MM can't send these files to Winamp because the non-western characters are lost in the process.

Is there any way to fix that?

Thanks.

[mikeggsm]

The problem happens because MM writes the files to be sent to Winamp in the playlist "C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\MediaMonkey\playit.m3u", and that file is in plain ASCII, not Unicode, even if Options -> Tags & Playlists -> "Use Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) for M3U playlists" is checked.

Is there any way to tell MM to use UTF-8 in that file (use a .m3u8 file instead of a .m3u file)?

Thanks.

[nohitter151]

No, but since I was able to reproduce the problem I opened a new bug:
http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6384

[mikeggsm]

Great, thanks a lot!

[mikeggsm]

Hi,

This problem still exists in MediaMonkey 4... it would be really great if this could be solved!

It has been verified by an admin... It is really too bad that, if there are East Asian characters in the file name, then Winamp cannot be used as the player.

Thank you!