I did a M3U playlist containing songs with accents like this: \Music\Sinéad O’ Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U.mp3 \Music\Soda Stereo - De Música Lijera.flac etc… Where \Music\ is the folder with the songs in my NTFS hard disk. In this case the songs with accents in the filename like “Sinéad” and …

It’s already been mentioned and WD is notified. You also don’t need to save to m3u8 to convert an m3u to UTF. In the meantime you can batch convert with Notepad ++ .