# OS X Wine setting for non ASCII characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-wine-setting-for-non-ascii-characters/16743
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 25, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-wine-setting-for-non-ascii-characters/16743 "2015-03-25T11:41:05Z")
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### Author: ![bluewolf](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@bluewolf](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bluewolf)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-wine-setting-for-non-ascii-characters/16743/1 "2015-03-25T11:41:05Z")

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Hi all,

I notice while working with MP3tag in Wine under OS X that filename having special characters(i.e. é, ù, etc.) are not shown properly in MP3tag when running under Wine using the installation downloaded from this site.

The reason is the different encoding and to fix the issue I have change the wine starting script here:  
/Applications/Mp3tag.app/Contents/MacOS/startwine

and change the last lines by adding **LANG=en\_US.UTF-8**

here how the lines are appearing now:

if ["$(defaults read "$BUNDLERESOURCEPATH/../Info" WineProgramArguments)" != ""]; then

```
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 "$WINEUSRPATH/bin/wine" "$BIN_FILE" $(defaults read "$BUNDLERESOURCEPATH/../Info" WineProgramArguments)

```

else

```
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 "$WINEUSRPATH/bin/wine" "$BIN_FILE"

```

fi

After this change the accented characters are correctly shown and written to file system.

Regards.  
Alberto