# Unicode Characters Displayed Boxes

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 27, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012 "2010-10-27T14:50:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Slator](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Slator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slator)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012/1 "2010-10-27T14:50:53Z")

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Version 2.46a

Does anyone know how to fix this Mp3Tag display issue?  
I am new to Mp3Tag program - so I assume there is some setting/option...

After using the Convert/"Text file - tag" method for UNICODE Mandarin tags, the (new) tags were displayed as "small boxes" in the Mp3Tag program.

HOWEVER, the UNICODE, Mandarin tags were converted correctly by the Mp3Tag program.  
I know this because I used another MP3 tag editor to view the (new) tags.

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### Author: ![Slator](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Slator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slator)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012/2 "2010-10-27T16:52:43Z")

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Some More Information  
I did some more testing...

1. Only the ID3v2 tags are being converted/updated correctly to the UNICODE Mandarin characters.

2. The ID3v1 tags were converted to "?..." marks. This was confirmed when I viewed the tags in my other MP3 tag editor.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012/3 "2010-10-29T12:41:57Z")

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> [@Slator](#):
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> 1. The ID3v1 tags were converted to "?..." marks. This was confirmed when I viewed the tags in my other MP3 tag editor.

This is because Mp3tag supports ISO-8859-1 for ID3v1 only.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-characters-displayed-boxes/11012/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:38Z")

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