# 8-bit russian characters in ID3v2 tags ?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-bit-russian-characters-in-id3v2-tags/4335
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-bit-russian-characters-in-id3v2-tags/4335 "2007-01-15T11:31:51Z")
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### Author: ![Subachev](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@Subachev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Subachev)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-bit-russian-characters-in-id3v2-tags/4335/1 "2007-01-15T11:31:51Z")

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How to write 8-bit russian characters in ID3v2 tags ?

When I select ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 then I get question marks instead of russian characters.  
But I need to get 8-bit russian characters in standard Windows-1251 encoding.

How to perform this ?

Oleg Subachev

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-bit-russian-characters-in-id3v2-tags/4335/2 "2007-01-15T17:13:50Z")

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Mp3tag no longer supports writing of ID3v2 tags using the system codepage. Use Unicode instead. AFAIK, ID3v1 can still be written using the system codepage.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-bit-russian-characters-in-id3v2-tags/4335/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:06Z")

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