# Song titles with special characters change when importing to Itunes

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 2, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939 "2021-08-02T04:59:22Z")
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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: [August 2, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/4 "2021-08-02T06:07:32Z")

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> [@agustin440](#):
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> The tag is ID3v2.3 UTF-16

Is this the setting that you have or is this the actual character encoding?  
You can [add a column](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list) that shows the character encoding. Set as value %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding% (and leave field emtpy).

Also, you could use [MP3diags to convert the tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633), assuming you local codepage.

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