# character encoding greek to unicode
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 8, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364 "2015-11-08T15:09:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@blobber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blobber)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/1 "2015-11-08T15:09:48Z")
Hello,
I'm struggling with converting some .mp3 files with apparently some greek character encoding to universal readable unicode. First of all I don't know which format was chosen. And the problem is that even mp3tag doesn't display the tags correctly. Look:
On the left you see the file browser with the file names for comparison. So should the id3 tags look like.
I haven't done any editing in mp3tag. The files are shown like that without me having done anything.
Any help?
Setup: mp3tag on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with Wine
(if that's the issue it would be no problem to get access to a Win 7 / 8 or 10 machine)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/2 "2015-11-08T17:01:16Z")
MP3diags has a function that converts strings to unicode under the assumption of a certain code page.
And foobar, I think, has also such a function.
Then again: which OS are you using? I think XP lacked a couple of screen font characters to display all characters correctly.
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### Author:  [@blobber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blobber)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/3 "2015-11-09T07:37:46Z")
Yeah I heard of foobar but I'm currently running mp3tag on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with Wine.
If mp3tag isn't able to convert the character encoding format, I could get access to a Windows machine with foobar.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/4 "2015-11-09T07:45:52Z")
I am still not sure if this is a problem of the conversion.
Is it really MP3tag that has tagged the files like that?
I mean: the tag panel look strange in your screendump, yet the files list looks ok.
You can check the character encoding with the field
%\_id3v2\_character\_encoding%
because it could be that some other application has not written the tags according to standard.
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### Author:  [@blobber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blobber)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/5 "2015-11-09T18:06:45Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Is it really MP3tag that has tagged the files like that?
No, mp3tag didn't tag the files like that. I've never said so. I got the files like that and now want to convert the format to a readable one.
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> You can check the character encoding with the field %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding%
Please check my screenshot, I set it already to the second row. As you see it says UTF-16.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/6 "2015-11-09T19:51:36Z")
> [@blobber](#):
>
> No, mp3tag didn't tag the files like that. I've never said so. I got the files like that and now want to convert the format to a readable one.
>
> Please check my screenshot, I set it already to the second row. As you see it says UTF-16.
there is this "important topics" thread about unicode:
[/t/2785/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2785/1)
And yes: please try a genuine Windows system first.
And also I would seriously check the files with mp3diags
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### Author:  [@blobber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blobber)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/7 "2015-11-11T17:17:05Z")
I solved my problem now by using foobar2000 and the chacon plugin on a windows machine. Detailed instructions can be found [here](http://www.cloudbeatsapp.com/how-to-fix-japanese-chinese-or-cyrillic-characters-in-mp3-files/).
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/8 "2015-11-11T19:40:54Z")
> [@blobber](#):
>
> I solved my problem now by using foobar2000 and the chacon plugin on a windows machine. ...
Have a look there ... it could be of interest and help to understand ...
[convert charset encoding](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/14360/11)
DD.20151111.2140.CET
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-encoding-greek-to-unicode/17364/9 "2026-02-09T12:25:56Z")