# 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: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@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")

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> [@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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