# The function $utf8 don't seems to work in mp3tag 3.32
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346 "2025-12-15T11:17:02Z")
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### Author:  [@digiloo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/digiloo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/1 "2025-12-15T11:17:02Z")
A “Review” gices the following output
"abc-åäöåäö-def"
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"123 $utf8(abc-åäöåäö-def) 456"
ANy idea why ?
/ Digiloo
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/2 "2025-12-15T11:23:50Z")
Could you explain what that function is supposed to do and supply a link to the corresponding description?
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### Author:  [@digiloo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/digiloo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/3 "2025-12-15T11:27:09Z")
The funktion is (according to Google) a function to convert a tag to UTF-88 like the one $ansi() that converts to CP1252. / Digiloo
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/4 "2025-12-15T11:28:36Z")
TBH: there is no such function called $utf8 in MP3tag.
Please see the documentation on scripting functions:
> **[Scripting Functions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting/)**
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> Documentation on Mp3tag's scripting functions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Google has hallucinated.
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### Author:  [@digiloo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/digiloo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/5 "2025-12-15T11:58:03Z")
Thank you. Yes it seems to from time to time make up function instead of checking th e documentation. But anyway have to use IDv3.1 (that is the tags is saved in ansi). But need to see to that they are saved in UTF-8 (Don’r ask why). ANy idea how? Regards
Digiloo
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/6 "2025-12-15T12:02:11Z")
> [@digiloo](#):
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> Yes it seems to from time to time make up function instead of checking th e documentation
That would be your task, I would think.
See e.g. this thread:
> [@Controlling the encoding of ID3v1 tags?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/controlling-the-encoding-of-id3v1-tags/18100):
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> Some of my songs have titles and artist names in Japanese. Japanese text works perfectly with ID3v2.3, but I would also like to have correct Japanese Shift-JIS text in ID3v1 because the music player on my Nintendo 3DS ignores ID3v2 tags in certain cases but supports Shift-JIS in ID3v1. ID3v1 tags are normally saved as Windows-1252 (or is it ISO-8859-1?), which doesn't contain any Japanese characters, so the entire text just gets replaced with question marks. In the past (using older versions of …
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-function-utf8-dont-seems-to-work-in-mp3tag-3-32/70346/7 "2026-01-14T12:02:22Z")
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