leading . characters causes issues and are stripped in the channel list
leading * characters works ok

1. I changed the leading character to * and it sorts properly now. It seems you are removing leading . characters from tvg-title
2. Maybe make a new settings option to always auto-sort. I never do manual sorting

thanks

Hi,

v7.67.06

1) When I import an m3u file with channels in it, the group names are not being saved correctly (this had been working fine since forever until recently).
Example in the screenshot group name is .Sport Daily -- there is a leading . but in the channel list all dots in all group names ...