I found a solution !
→ use UTF-8 character encoding ←
“m3u” playlists with an UTF-8 encoded content ARE suported by the WDTVLive and as far as I can tell from my music collection, all file paths & names with unusual characters are correctly handled now.
From what I understand about encodings, supporting UTF-8 is a clever choice, as it is more likely than any other encoding to support a real-world variety of characters. Pretty important to international music fans like me.
On the other hand most users probably don’t even know what a character encoding is, and playlists are unfortunately often encoded with something else than UTF-8.
So I would say this is finally not a bug, but rather an information problem. WD’s design is actually good. But the “UTF-8” keyword should definitely appear somewhere in the WDTVLive documentation. Preferably close to the “m3u” keyword.
Hope this can help other users - Rad
