# Alternate dashes in title **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alternate-dashes-in-title/41818 "2018-05-29T17:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dschulze747](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dschulze747](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dschulze747)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alternate-dashes-in-title/41818/1 "2018-05-29T17:02:18Z")
Sometimes I have a title that contains what is called an en dash (–), or an em dash (—). These are longer-than-usual dashes ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash)). However, MP3Tag does not seem to support these. When I save the file, those characters revert back to a regular dash. Is there a way to get these in a title (or album name) without resorting to a hex editor? ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alternate-dashes-in-title/41818/2 "2018-05-29T17:12:10Z")
With which character encoding do you save the data? It works with UTF-16, it does not work with ISO-8859-1 ---
**Author:** ![dschulze747](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dschulze747](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dschulze747)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alternate-dashes-in-title/41818/3 "2018-05-31T12:04:46Z")
That did it! Thank you. ---
**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, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alternate-dashes-in-title/41818/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:27Z")