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+# MusicPlayer
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+## UTF-8 Character Support
+If your music file names use characters outside of the ASCII character set, the application should be launched with the following parameter
+-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+If this is not done the application will hang when trying to play a file with non ASCII characters in its' path.
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