From 13ff9e84d4e615d366a820c65c3797edebfc91fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dev Mehta <devm2632@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:31:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added test cases and change log

---
 test/plugins/test_convert.py | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/plugins/test_convert.py b/test/plugins/test_convert.py
index 1452686a7..76b8ced91 100644
--- a/test/plugins/test_convert.py
+++ b/test/plugins/test_convert.py
@@ -260,6 +260,45 @@ class ConvertCliTest(ConvertTestCase, ConvertCommand):
         self.run_convert("--playlist", "playlist.m3u8", "--pretend")
         assert not (self.convert_dest / "playlist.m3u8").exists()
 
+    def test_playlist_generation_with_fallback_and_unicode(tmp_path, library, convert_plugin):
+        # Setup items with one having no path (to trigger fallback), one with Unicode filename
+        item_with_path = library.add_item(path=str(tmp_path / "song1.mp3"))
+        item_with_path.path = str(tmp_path / "song1.mp3")
+        item_missing_path = library.add_item(path=str(tmp_path / "song\u2603.mp3"))
+        item_missing_path.path = ""  # empty path to force fallback
+
+        # Destination directory
+        dest = tmp_path / "dest"
+        dest.mkdir()
+
+        playlist_path = tmp_path / "test_playlist.m3u"
+
+        # Manually call playlist generation code from convert_func
+        items = [item_with_path, item_missing_path]
+        pl_normpath = str(playlist_path)
+        pl_dir = str(playlist_path.parent)
+
+        items_paths = []
+        for item in items:
+            path = item.path if item.path else item.destination(basedir=str(dest))
+            rel_path = os.path.relpath(path, pl_dir)
+            # Ensure UTF-8 string
+            if isinstance(rel_path, bytes):
+                rel_path = rel_path.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            items_paths.append(rel_path)
+
+        m3ufile = convert_plugin.M3UFile(playlist_path)
+        m3ufile.set_contents(items_paths)
+        m3ufile.write()
+
+        # Assert playlist was created and contains expected content
+        assert playlist_path.exists()
+        content = playlist_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        assert "song1.mp3" in content
+        assert "\u2603" in content  # snowman unicode char
+
+
+
 
 @_common.slow_test()
 class NeverConvertLossyFilesTest(ConvertTestCase, ConvertCommand):