# How do I allow both Roman alphabet and other alphabets, such as Russian at the same time?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 22, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-allow-both-roman-alphabet-and-other-alphabets-such-as-russian-at-the-same-time/55185 "2021-11-22T00:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![banshee](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@banshee](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/banshee)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-allow-both-roman-alphabet-and-other-alphabets-such-as-russian-at-the-same-time/55185/1 "2021-11-22T00:36:46Z")

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I have many albums that include both English language song titles, album names, composers and other information along with titles and such in Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese and other alphabets. How do I allow the display of English and those others at the same time?

For example, the North American release of _200 km/h in the Wrong Lane_ by t.A.T.u. has most track names in English, but it has two that appear in Russian, track 9, "Я сошла с ума," and track 10, "Нас не догонят." When I attempt to cut and paste those Cyrilic letters into MP3Tag, they only appear as "? ????? ? ???" and "??? ?? ???????" instead.

There is also the Chelsea Wolfe album _Ἀποκάλυψις_ which appears as ?????????? instead.

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**Author:** ![MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/motleyg/32/440_2.png) [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-allow-both-roman-alphabet-and-other-alphabets-such-as-russian-at-the-same-time/55185/2 "2021-11-22T01:54:36Z")

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What tag format have you selected in the preference settings? If you use utf-16 these characters should be usable from Unicode.

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**Author:** ![banshee](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@banshee](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/banshee)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-allow-both-roman-alphabet-and-other-alphabets-such-as-russian-at-the-same-time/55185/3 "2021-11-22T20:31:45Z")

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I was not using utf-16, and have now switched to that. Thank you, that seems to have solved the problem!

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-allow-both-roman-alphabet-and-other-alphabets-such-as-russian-at-the-same-time/55185/4 "2021-12-22T20:32:31Z")

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