# Special Characters added to title

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-added-to-title/3249
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-added-to-title/3249 "2006-04-26T14:02:34Z")
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### Author: ![madbastd](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@madbastd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/madbastd)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-added-to-title/3249/10 "2006-06-03T04:16:48Z")

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I had a very similar problem appear after upgrading from v2.35 to v2.36. It turns out that this is due to the default ID3v2 character coding changing from UTF-16 to UTF-8. I think this is a bug: [/t/3397/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3397/1)

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