# How can I select ID3V2.3 and UTF8

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-select-id3v2-3-and-utf8/47558
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 19, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-select-id3v2-3-and-utf8/47558 "2020-01-19T00:13:23Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-select-id3v2-3-and-utf8/47558/12 "2020-01-19T16:25:08Z")

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MP3diags (link see here:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

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has a function to convert the tag fields encoding to utf-16 assuming the local code page.  
You could try that and see if it helps.

And, of course, there is an action im MP3tag to convert the current characterset to unicode:

> **[Convert Codepage – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/convert-codepage/)**
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> Documentation on the Convert Codepage action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

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