# filename display ISO 8859-1
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-display-iso-8859-1/4176
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 13, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-display-iso-8859-1/4176 "2006-12-13T14:55:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@skinbelly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/skinbelly)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-display-iso-8859-1/4176/1 "2006-12-13T14:55:13Z")
I have an Alpine head unit that is compatible only with ISO 8859-1 tags. The tags are read by the unit just fine for all fields when saving in ISO 8859-1 format EXCEPT the filename field. I do have this option checked in the mp3tag program settings.
I tried deleting all the tags & re saving, copying tag\>filename, etc. Nothing seems to help. It's not the head unit because I have mp3 CD's that I burned a few years ago that still display filename tag correctly.
Example:
Used to display scrolling: "1 - Now Is The Time.mp3"
Now displays scrolling: "01 \_ \_ \_ NOW"
The file name is "1 - Now Is The Time.mp3" when viewing in mp3tag (in Windows, and in any other tagging program for that matter)
Any ideas would be appreciated, it's driving me nuts.
Thanks,
Mike
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### Author:  [@skinbelly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/skinbelly)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-display-iso-8859-1/4176/2 "2006-12-14T00:33:24Z")
.....I just figured it out.
The filename isn't really a tag, it's just the filename - you don't need a tagging program to change it. I just remembered I switched burning programs a while back - started using imgburn instead of Nero. Nero has a mode for burning mp3 cd's, so it must format the filename some way differently than just burning the files to disc like imgburn does.
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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/filename-display-iso-8859-1/4176/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:02Z")