Jens Erik Jensen wrote: 
> I am using piCorePlayer on an RPi3 with LMS installed and my music on a
> FAT32-formatted USB drive. It works very well. LMS scans and recognizes
> my music OK. However, my playlists are only partly imported. More
> specifically, file names/paths with Danish special characters (æ, ø, å)
> do not get recognized, or more precisely they get ignored when LMS scans
> the playlists. I guess the reason is that file system encoding is
> different from the encoding of the text in the playlists. But I do not
> know how to tell LMS about the encoding of files and folders in the file
> system. Any hints on how to do that? I have tried to change the encoding
> of the playlist files between ANSI and UTF8, but that does not seem to
> help.

d6jg wrote: 
> I hit a similar problem with pCp 3.11 and a FAT32 drive. I am currently
> investigating further as I am pretty sure it is a samba issue on the Pi
> but can't fully test until next week.
> 

It's a problem with the vfat mount.  It defaults to only ASCII character
sets.  we need to specify utf8 when mounting a vfat disk.   Your current
options are to use nfts or ext4 formatted disks.  Those formats default
to utf8.   I'll change the vfat mounting


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