# strange unicode support
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273 "2007-01-02T16:35:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@caprik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/caprik)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273/1 "2007-01-02T16:35:23Z")
I tried the latest version of mp3tag and find out the unicode support. I still use programs and devices than doesn't support unicode properly so i would prefer not to use it.
I tried to wrote some tags and find out that when i set to convert the id3v2 tags to iso8859-1
some characters are stripped like ř-\>r,č-\>c, ž-\>z etc. But id3v1 tags are ok.
Is there any way how to make mp3tag work as version 2,28 and older where i was able use characters like ř,Ř,č,Č,ž,Ž in both v1 and v2 tags without using unicode?
Its probably due iso8859-1 code page that wasn't forced in older versions
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273/2 "2007-01-02T20:40:59Z")
As far as I know, using the system codepage for ID3v2 is not part of the standard and that's why Florian removed that "feature".
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:04Z")