# %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding% Reading - How it works

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-character-encoding-reading-how-it-works/19414
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 4, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-character-encoding-reading-how-it-works/19414 "2017-10-04T12:59:17Z")
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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: [October 4, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-character-encoding-reading-how-it-works/19414/3 "2017-10-04T17:38:51Z")

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> [@stevehero](#):
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> ... Eg. Set save to only 2.3 utf-8, ...

It is either V2.4 with UTF-8  
or V2.3 with UTF-16  
or V2.3 with ISO-8859-1  
no V2.3 with UTF-8

There is also this thread on different codes: [Problems with ID3v2 tags in Unicode format?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2785/1)

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