# Chinese characters show in player but not mp3tag **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/chinese-characters-show-in-player-but-not-mp3tag/47235 **Category:** Support **Created:** [December 6, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/chinese-characters-show-in-player-but-not-mp3tag/47235 "2019-12-06T13:50:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### 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: [December 6, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/chinese-characters-show-in-player-but-not-mp3tag/47235/9 "2019-12-06T19:43:18Z")
what you see is that a utf-16 character consists of 16 bits whereas others use only 8 bits to encode a character. So if the player does not understand to read utf-16 characters, it show these strange characters. What you can do is to check the files with mp3diags as this utility detects strange character encodings and tries to translate those to a common format. see here for a link: > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/chinese-characters-show-in-player-but-not-mp3tag/47235)._