# \[F\] Action Export encoding fails to default to ansi
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [February 5, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188 "2008-02-05T11:33:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/1 "2008-02-05T11:33:55Z")
Action Export's encoding fails to default to ANSI - with no $filename(), the encoding is UTF-8, rather than ANSI as in the case of File | Export.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/2 "2008-02-06T20:27:51Z")
Can you please check again?
Edit: Nevermind. Found the bug - thanks for reporting!
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/3 "2008-02-06T20:39:20Z")
You're welcome! Thanks again for a great program, currently proving worth its weight in gold in my 12,000-track library reorg.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/4 "2008-02-07T19:50:10Z")
What's the default at $filename(test.txt) ?
I thought it was utf-8
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/5 "2008-02-07T20:01:20Z")
> I thought it was utf-8
I recall Florian saying he recently reverted it to ansi.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/6 "2008-02-07T20:05:30Z")
> [@chrisjj](#):
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> I recall Florian saying he recently reverted it to ansi.
Exactly.
Using UTF-8 as default resulted in a bunch of false bug reports due to missing UTF-8 support in 3rd-party applications.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/7 "2008-02-07T20:32:29Z")
Ok so I've missed that..
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/8 "2008-02-09T20:06:47Z")
This issue has been fixed with the current [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de).
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/9 "2008-02-12T12:54:17Z")
Confirmed fixed in V2.39o. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-action-export-encoding-fails-to-default-to-ansi/6188/10 "2018-12-28T13:59:02Z")
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