# Help with \[Encoding\] on AMG
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [August 29, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713 "2006-08-29T23:13:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@sf\_thumper](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sf_thumper)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/1 "2006-08-29T23:13:25Z")
I'd appreciate some help getting encoding to work for me on AMG.
I've modified Dano's amg-classical script (thanks!) to pick up tags such as composer, work, and movement. And that's working well.
But I must be using the [Encoding] statement incorrectly (or I don't understand what it does) as extended European characters in the iso-8859-1 pages are not rendering correctly either in the Web Sources Framework dialog or after the tags are applied in mp3tag.
mp3tag is configured to write ID3v2.4 utf-8 tags. The AMG pages are encoded as iso-8859-1. I've tried all three options for the [Encoding]= statement in my src file, but none provide me the correct rendering. If I copy and paste from the web page directly into mp3tag, the accented characters are correctly rendered.
Any suggestions, please?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/2 "2006-08-30T07:47:56Z")
Can you give example IDs?
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### Author:  [@sf\_thumper](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sf_thumper)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/3 "2006-08-30T16:46:36Z")
Sure:
AMG ID 53653 - Kodály: Galánta Dances; Marosszék Dances; "Peacock" Variations
or: 11900 - Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
I've modified the search to go directly to the tracks detail page as in the following:
```
[BasedOn]=http://www.allmusic.com
[IndexUrl]=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=43:%s~T2
[AlbumUrl]=
[WordSeperator]=
[IndexFormat]=%Year%|%Artist%|%_url%|%Album%|%Genre%
[SearchBy]=%comment%
[Encoding]=utf-8
```
I tried utf-8, iso-8859-1 and ansi (all without and with quotes) for [Encoding]
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/4 "2006-08-30T17:12:58Z")
In my script I don't use the Encoding parameter and all shows fine.
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### Author:  [@sf\_thumper](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sf_thumper)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/5 "2006-08-30T19:56:02Z")
Thanks for checking that out. Since your unmodified script didn't display correctly on my computer either, I changed my second language in the Control Panel Regional section to Hungarian from Hebrew and now it displays correctly.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that the [Encoding] statement might have provided the flexibilty to adjust the conversion without going into system settings. AFAIK no other program had been displaying ISO-8859-1 encoded information incorrectly.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-encoding-on-amg/3713/6 "2006-08-31T12:15:15Z")
IIRC [Encoding] only influences the outgoing data and there might be some kind of auto detection for the incoming data.