# Unicode title and such displayed garbled

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 26, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010 "2010-10-26T17:44:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![fw\_man](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@fw\_man](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fw_man)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010/1 "2010-10-26T17:44:10Z")

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Hi,  
I have a mp3 file whose tags I exported to the attached file. WHen viewing this file in MP3TAG I see garbled characters for Title and Album. However, when I play this file in Winamp, the title and album are displayed correctly (cyrillic characters). When I ask Winamp for File Info, it shows readable words under Basic Info tab but garbled text under ID3v1 and ID3v2 tabs.

Is there a way to direct MP3TAG to use this "basic info" and display readable chars?

Thanks.

[mp3tag.html](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5b38d6fc7c2ae3f1465c2fcb9b0a18719c208d07.html) (1.7 KB)

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### Author: ![loip](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@loip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/loip)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010/2 "2010-10-26T21:34:26Z")

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I can see the unicode characters fine here [![:unsure:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/cfaeba84fe6704387c5b34dfdd8172bd51b6f533.gif ":unsure:")](http://www.schuhegutschein.org/)

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### Author: ![fw\_man](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@fw\_man](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fw_man)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010/3 "2010-10-26T22:37:47Z")

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You do not see them as garbled? You see Cyrillic characters?

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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, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010/4 "2010-10-29T12:43:20Z")

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Mp3tag only supports ISO-8859-1 for ID3v1. Please stick to ID3v2 if you need different character sets.

Kind regards  
Florian

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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-title-and-such-displayed-garbled/11010/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:38Z")

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