# THE STUPID ÿ Character
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-stupid-y-character/7384
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 26, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-stupid-y-character/7384 "2008-10-26T20:38:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@wilsonjg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wilsonjg)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-stupid-y-character/7384/1 "2008-10-26T20:38:22Z")
Hello I only found out about this software about an hour ago and wonder if its capable of:
Removing ÿ from mp3s that have ÿ in any part of their tags.
The reasoning is for some reason Rio Music Manager has taken it upon its self to stick the aforementioned ÿ into various placed and I don't know why!
So yeah is there a way to make it go though all my mp3's looking for the ÿ and removing it?
Thank you
James
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### Author:  [@wilsonjg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wilsonjg)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-stupid-y-character/7384/2 "2008-10-26T21:28:44Z")
Sorry about posting before using the program I thought it would be hard to do. Brilliant Program just great
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### Author:  [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-stupid-y-character/7384/3 "2008-10-27T00:31:25Z")
The reason, as so often, might have been an application that didn’t understand UTF encoding.
Solution: Set Tag Read/Write options as per your needs (in that case probably _Write ID3v2.3 with ISO-8859-1 encoding_), resave tags, done.