# \[F\] ID3v2.4 UTF-8 is not on specification
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396 "2016-11-04T10:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@andryk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andryk)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396/1 "2016-11-04T10:08:53Z")
[id3.org](http://id3.org) says ID3v2.4 spec in [this page](http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure)
> [@](#):
>
> Frames that allow different types of text encoding contains a text
> encoding description byte. Possible encodings:
>
> ```
> $00 ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
> $01 UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All
> strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder.
> Terminated with $00 00.
> $02 UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM.
> Terminated with $00 00.
> $03 UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.
>
> ```
this image shows binary code of a file edited by mp3tag v2.79.
Address 0x2F is end of TALB UTF-8 data however the data not terminated with $00,
continuing next TPE1 UTF-8 data without terminating.
sorry for bad English.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396/2 "2016-12-05T09:12:09Z")
The reported issue is now fixed with the current [Development Build (Mp3tag v2.80a)](http://developer.mp3tag.de). It actually applied not only to UTF-8, but also to ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16.
As with all those low-level changes, it would be great if you (and possibly others) can analyze the new implementation and confirm the fix.
Thanks for reporting!
Kind regards
– Florian
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### Author:  [@andryk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andryk)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 6:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396/3 "2016-12-06T06:22:49Z")
I confirmed $00 exists properly in frames with UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1. Now it's on spec.
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-id3v2-4-utf-8-is-not-on-specification/18396/4 "2018-12-28T14:08:57Z")
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