# how to change ???? back to chinese word?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-back-to-chinese-word/12419
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-back-to-chinese-word/12419 "2011-08-22T05:10:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Angelpoli](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Angelpoli)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-back-to-chinese-word/12419/1 "2011-08-22T05:10:35Z")
i'm trying to change UTF 16 to UTF 8 since other forum said this might make my phone to read the chinese word instead of all those symbol. After changing it, it gone worst. I can't even read those chinese song's tag(title,artist) in my computer. I tried changing it to ISO8859-1 and after that most of the song's tag changed back to chinese word and some of it change to ????. I tried change it again to UTF16 and back to ISO8859-1 again however, this time gone worst. Almost every chinese song's tag gone ????. Can someone please help me and tell me how can i change back those 800+ chinese song's tag to chinese? Thanks alot.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-back-to-chinese-word/12419/2 "2011-08-22T14:12:21Z")
ISO-8859-1 does not support any Chinese characters. Saving your tags in this format was a big mistake.
I think you can only try one thing:
Go to the tag options and disable the reading of ID3v2 tags and then refresh the file view.
Maybe the correct tags are still in the ID3v1 tag.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-back-to-chinese-word/12419/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:17Z")