# Add an option on "Writing ID3v2 tags in system codepage"
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-an-option-on-writing-id3v2-tags-in-system-codepage/5033
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 18, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-an-option-on-writing-id3v2-tags-in-system-codepage/5033 "2007-06-18T12:15:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Lonely\_IBM](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lonely_IBM)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-an-option-on-writing-id3v2-tags-in-system-codepage/5033/1 "2007-06-18T12:15:16Z")
I'm a Chinese user, and I really cannot bear the garbled characters on my portable MP3 player (It doesn't support Unicode at all, and so do most MP3 players in China Mainland). I strongly recommend that a checkbox should be added.
I've said it long ago, but I wrongly said it as the problem of ISO-8859-1. Now I've corrected my mistake.
...My English is not so good, so, ...
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-an-option-on-writing-id3v2-tags-in-system-codepage/5033/2 "2007-06-18T17:32:21Z")
AFAIK, that is not part of the standard and therefore will not find its was back in Mp3tag. You can use ID3v1 tags, although they have limitations regarding overall length of fields.
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### Author:  [@Lonely\_IBM](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lonely_IBM)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-an-option-on-writing-id3v2-tags-in-system-codepage/5033/3 "2007-06-19T12:47:40Z")
I'm very sorry for my impolite repeting. I really admire the careful attitude (Is it right?) of Germans.