Limits to UTF-8 Support

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SUMMARY: Media Control Platform requires all characters in filenames to be encoded using UTF-8. (UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding for the Unicode character set, and the default-by-concensus for the world wide web.)

Also note that:

• Windows does not support UTF-8 local file names explicitly, but UTF-8 characters can be used (even if they do not display well on Windows).
• This does not impact UTF-8 coming from non-local filenames.