# Convert utf8 to local character set

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-utf8-to-local-character-set/51113>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-utf8-to-local-character-set/51113 "2020-12-11T01:45:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![fpefpe](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fpefpe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fpefpe)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-utf8-to-local-character-set/51113/1 "2020-12-11T01:45:27Z")

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Hello -- I got an album which has been ripped to mp3 files --- some of the tags have utf8 encoding --- is there a way to translate those encoding to the local character set?

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**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 11, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-utf8-to-local-character-set/51113/2 "2020-12-11T06:12:46Z")

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AFAIK UTF-8 is used for V2,4 tags.  
So convert the tags to V2.3 - and I would strongly recommend to use UTF-16 as encoding as ISO-8859-1 may cause problems when using such files with a different codepage.  
See File\>Options\>Tags\>Mpeg to change the tag version.

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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:** [January 19, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-utf8-to-local-character-set/51113/3 "2026-01-19T14:48:59Z")

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