# Special characters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554 "2010-06-17T15:07:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@brok3n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/brok3n)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554/1 "2010-06-17T15:07:04Z")
how can i save the symbol ❤ or any other special character in tags? instead of anything like ❤ there's a default windows square. 
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554/2 "2010-06-17T15:27:53Z")
do you use utf-16 encoding?
and then: the target system has to feature the same font. e.g. if you found this character in a special font like symbol or so, the target system would have to have that installed as well.
so it could be a problem that special characters have a special meaning on other systems and are thereform masked to avoid trouble.
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### Author:  [@brok3n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/brok3n)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554/3 "2010-06-17T16:09:48Z")
ID3v2.4 UTF-8
thanks for such massive reply )
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters/10554/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:27Z")