# Exporting international characters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697 "2007-04-03T08:06:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/1 "2007-04-03T08:06:04Z")
How can I get an Export to preserve international chars? Currently e.g.
folder name: Creaciones inolvidables con Podestá y Bermúdez
outputs
text file: Creaciones inolvidables con Podestá y Bermúdez
☹
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 9:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/2 "2007-04-03T09:05:38Z")
By default the export makes utf-8 encoded files which covers all unicode characters.
Your outputs indicates that the file is utf-8 encoded but the program you use doesn't detect it or can't display it.
Do you know if your program can read unicode text files?
In "Options \> Export" do you have "[x] Export file with BOM" checked? This makes it easier to detect the encoding of a file.
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/3 "2007-04-03T17:39:37Z")
> By default the export makes utf-8 encoded files
That fits. Any idea where I can change from that default?
> Do you know if your program can read unicode text files?
In general, no - sorry not to ask more clearly.
For avoidance of doubt, I want output equivalent to the result of copy'n'paste from Explorer to Notepad. I.e. no conversion by mp3tag.
Thanks, Dano.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/4 "2007-04-03T18:38:55Z")
You can use the $filename() function to define the encoding.
For your case you choose **ansi** as second parameter which means your system codepage.
$filename(test.txt,ansi)
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/5 "2007-04-03T19:00:51Z")
> You can use the $filename() function to define the encoding.
Ah, how careless of me not to see that in the Help. Thanks, Dano.
Note to others: to specify just encoding avoiding "Select export file" (sic - really "Select export config") overwriting manually inputted "Export file name:" value, make the filename a null string!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-international-characters/4697/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:14Z")