# v.2.3 UTF-16
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v-2-3-utf-16/4699
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v-2-3-utf-16/4699 "2007-04-03T14:12:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@chrisstavrou](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisstavrou)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v-2-3-utf-16/4699/1 "2007-04-03T14:12:24Z")
First let me start with a big thank you for such a nice software.
I would like to request for some technical information regarding the encoding of the tags.
I am writing my own mp3 player application and i am able to read the contents of the tags of v.2.3.
However, when the contents are encoded using UTF-16 it is not very clear to me how to decode them.
For example, if the tag contains only english characters then thats fine.
However when it contains (lets say greek characters) i am able to decode the greek as utf-16 but if it contains at the same time english letters then these letters seem to be encoded as non utf-16 (well most of the times that is).
I am sure i got it wrong on this decoding process so any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v-2-3-utf-16/4699/2 "2007-04-03T16:24:22Z")
utf-16 is an encoding for unicode:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode)
Are you familiar with unicode?
If not you should read a bit on the web and if you search for "unicode or utf-16 + your programming language" you find something useful.
I think normally you have a system function to do the decoding, you don't need to think about it.