# Unicode custom genres problem

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-custom-genres-problem/3924
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 19, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-custom-genres-problem/3924 "2006-10-19T09:24:57Z")
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### Author: ![george1934](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@george1934](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/george1934)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-custom-genres-problem/3924/1 "2006-10-19T09:24:57Z")

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I tried to define a new genre in options-\>genre. All work fine when I'm using only Latin characters. But when I enter a genre using greek characters all other custom genres were lost.  
I checked genres.ini file and it was empty !!!

Any idea?

Thanks

George

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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, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-custom-genres-problem/3924/2 "2006-10-29T12:36:26Z")

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See this topic.

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-custom-genres-problem/3924/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:56Z")

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