# \[F\] v2.79 OS X file naming encoding issue
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [October 13, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323 "2016-10-13T04:57:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rmg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rmg)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/1 "2016-10-13T04:57:29Z")
When renaming files with non-ASCII characters Mp3Tag seems to use some encoding other than UTF-8 which corrupts the filenames in the OS X system
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/2 "2016-10-13T05:34:54Z")
As far as I understand it, it is a task of the underlying file manager to take care of proper filenames.
What do you classify as "corruption"?
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### Author:  [@rmg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rmg)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/3 "2016-10-13T06:38:42Z")
First of all OS X filenames that contain non-ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly.
Example:
Native OS X: SomeNonASCIIcharactersÜÕÖÄüõöä.mp3
Mp3Tag displayed filename: SomeNonASCIIcharactersUÌOÌOÌAÌuÌoÌoÌaÌ.mp3
Non-ASCII characters in the metadata are displayed correctly, but when I rename the file from the metada, the non-ASCII characters are corrupted in the OS X file browser (Finder)
This "SomeNonASCIIcharactersÜÕÖÄüõöä"
shows in Finder as "SomeNonASCIIcharacters%DC%D5%D6%C4%FC%F5%F6%E4", but correctly in Mp3Tag.
Clearly there are encoding issues.
Also the generated m3u playlists are saved with encoding Windows-1252 and not UTF-8 which generates issues there as well.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/4 "2016-10-13T10:45:44Z")
Can you please try whether the instructions provided in this post are fixing the issue for you?
Which language are you using with macOS?
Kind regards
– Florian
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### Author:  [@rmg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rmg)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/5 "2016-10-13T17:48:49Z")
Thank you!
The suggestion in the given forum thread did fix the issue of showing and writing the filenames correctly.
Could this be added to the next relaese so I wouldn't have to do this manually every time I update the application?
It did not change the encoding used for m3u playlist saving. How can that be changed to UTF-8 as well?
NB! I am using English as my primary language with Estonian keyboard layout.
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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-v2-79-os-x-file-naming-encoding-issue/18323/6 "2018-12-28T14:08:55Z")
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