# Converting fields tagged in UTF-8 to ANSI?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 18, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168 "2011-06-18T09:03:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Muntra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Muntra)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168/1 "2011-06-18T09:03:54Z")
Hi there
Anybody who knows to do this? I would have thought, that formatting the TITLE-field with a value of $ansi(%title%) should convert e.g. the Sweedish title "Fulla För Kärlekens Skull" to "Fulla För Kärlekens Skull". No values are changed however - is there another way to convert fields tagged in UTF-8 to ANSI (according to Notepad++ the tags in question are encoded in UTF-8 without BOM)
Thanks for any help with my problem in this in all matters great program.
Muntra
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168/2 "2011-06-18T11:01:14Z")
> [@Muntra](#):
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> ... I would have thought, ...
I understand the situation as ... the string "Fulla För Kärlekens Skull" is the ANSI string representation of the UTF-8 string "Fulla För Kärlekens Skull".
Because Mp3tag has full Unicode support, Mp3tag should have no problems with a tag-field containing Unicode characters, for both versions ID3v2.3 UTF-16 and ID3v2.4 UTF-8.
Obviously your example tag-field contains the ANSI string "Fulla För Kärlekens Skull", you should try to convert the string to its Unicode representation.
DD.20110618.1503.CEST
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### Author:  [@Muntra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Muntra)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168/3 "2011-06-18T15:32:15Z")
Thanks DetlevD
My problem is with Foobar2000's display af title tags encoded in what I call UTF-8 instead of ANSI (or Latin1 code in table below).
For example the Nordic/German letter 'ö' in ANSI-code is represented by hexadecimal 'F6', while in UTF-8 by a two byte sequence hexadecimal 'C3 B6'.
Now what I would want with MP3Tag is to run through all my music files and change this, but how?
Character..Latin1....Unicode.....UTF-8...Latin1
............code........................interpr.
...ä.........E4......00.E4.......C3.A4...ä
...å.........E5......00.E5.......C3.A5...Ã¥
...æ.........E6......00.E6.......C3.A6...æ
...Ö.........D6......00.D6.......C3.96...Ã[96]
...Ø.........D8......00.D8.......C3.98...Ã[98]
...Ä.........C4......00.C4.......C3.84...Ã[84]
...Å.........C5......00.C5.......C3.85...Ã[85]
...Æ.........C6......00.C6.......C3.86...Ã[86]
...ö.........F6......00.F6.......C3.B6...ö
...ø.........F8......00.F8.......C3.B8...ø
(from: [http://www.jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html)](http://www.jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html))
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168/4 "2011-06-18T15:41:23Z")
You can use [foo\_chacon](http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_chacon) with foobar2000.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-fields-tagged-in-utf-8-to-ansi/12168/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:10Z")