files with ë or é etc do not make it into playlist

[simoncn]

You can use the iconv command on the Mac to convert the NFD playlist into an NFC playlist. For example, this command:

iconv -f UTF-8-MAC -t UTF-8 example.m3u8 > example2.m3u8

will create a file example2.m3u8 that has all NFD characters converted to NFC.