# Filenames with umlauts do not work in playlist

**URL:** https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/filenames-with-umlauts-do-not-work-in-playlist/2490
**Category:** Misc
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/filenames-with-umlauts-do-not-work-in-playlist/2490 "2018-05-11T18:34:56Z")
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### Author: ![clarenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@clarenze](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/clarenze)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/filenames-with-umlauts-do-not-work-in-playlist/2490/1 "2018-05-11T18:34:56Z")

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Hi all,

I am having troubles with umlauts in playlists. A file works fine when I select it from the library, but when I try to play the same file from a playlist, the filename is displayed wrongly in the frontend (Mopidy.Mobile in my case) and also cannot be played, because mopidy cannot find the file.

The system locale is en\_US.UTF-8. All the playlists are encoded as UTF-8 and also the files in the filesystem are UTF-8 encoded.

Any ideas how I can make playlists work?

I am using the debian jessie mopidy 2.1.0-1 package.

Regards

Clarenze

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### Author: ![clarenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@clarenze](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/clarenze)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/filenames-with-umlauts-do-not-work-in-playlist/2490/2 "2018-05-11T18:52:25Z")

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I figured it out: I need to use .m3u8, not .m3u files. The 8 stands for UTF-8.