From 43f313348182bb9c23c0c7839508bd136e09b89e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: OzGav <gavnosp@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 20:05:18 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow Emoji in folder names (#3071)

* Allow Emoji in folder names

* Shorten comment
---
 music_assistant/providers/filesystem_smb/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/music_assistant/providers/filesystem_smb/__init__.py b/music_assistant/providers/filesystem_smb/__init__.py
index bb51493d..c7d56e00 100644
--- a/music_assistant/providers/filesystem_smb/__init__.py
+++ b/music_assistant/providers/filesystem_smb/__init__.py
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ class SMBFileSystemProvider(LocalFileSystemProvider):
         options.append(f"cache={cache_mode}")
 
         # Case insensitive by default (standard for SMB) and other performance options
+        # Note: iocharset is omitted to allow CIFS native Unicode handling for emoji
+        # and other 4-byte UTF-8 characters.
         options.extend(
             [
                 "nocase",
@@ -310,7 +312,6 @@ class SMBFileSystemProvider(LocalFileSystemProvider):
                 "dir_mode=0755",
                 "uid=0",
                 "gid=0",
-                "iocharset=utf8",
                 "noperm",
                 "nobrl",
                 "mfsymlinks",
-- 
2.34.1