# Wine + mp3tag: CJK characters are showing up as squares

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wine-mp3tag-cjk-characters-are-showing-up-as-squares/65081
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 18, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wine-mp3tag-cjk-characters-are-showing-up-as-squares/65081 "2024-06-18T23:15:45Z")
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### Author: ![tvrxujfdtzds](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@tvrxujfdtzds](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tvrxujfdtzds)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wine-mp3tag-cjk-characters-are-showing-up-as-squares/65081/1 "2024-06-18T23:15:45Z")

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Might be best explained with an example:

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So this is the folder selection dialog (this album list is from a Korean singer). The first album should be displayed as "사랑하는 사람들을 위한 지침서".

![Screenshot from 2024-06-18 23-37-39](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/2/f/2f38e5835ae2786dbf92378eae5be43a3a980014.png)

This next screenshot is the track listing after selecting an album/folder from a Japanese band. (The Japanese track should be displayed as "05. 心の地図.flac")

![Screenshot from 2024-06-18 23-39-21](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/1/8/1846de31b666164c19d418b8940a76cdf05d14c2.png)

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Some info/things I've tried:

1. I tried using LANG=ja\_JP.UTF-8 or ja\_JP.SHIFT\_JIS and more than half of the characters are still showing up as squares. Since I also have Chinese/Korean albums, I think this is not the ideal solution since I do not want to switch locales/languages.
2. I ran "winetricks allfonts" which seems to install all Windows fonts. No change to earlier results.
3. I ran winecfg =\> Desktop Integration =\> Appearance and I changed the fonts (if option is available) of all items to "Noto Sans CJK JP".
4. I checked mp3tag and it does not have font settings like other apps (example: foobar2000).
5. As a another test, I installed foobar2000 and it automatically selected "Noto Sans CJK JP" as the default font. (the track/album listing shows the correct characters. It's only the folder selection dialog that is wrong. I'm guessing that feature uses built-in "Windows" dialog.
6. I am running the latest version of both foobar2000 and mp3tag.

Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wine-mp3tag-cjk-characters-are-showing-up-as-squares/65081/2 "2024-06-19T06:42:12Z")

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> [@tvrxujfdtzds](#):
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> It's only the folder selection dialog that is wrong. I'm guessing that feature uses built-in "Windows" dialog.

I think that MP3tag relies on these standard dialogues and that what the OS (emulator) returns... So I would assume, it is a Wine problem.

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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, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wine-mp3tag-cjk-characters-are-showing-up-as-squares/65081/3 "2026-02-09T12:30:18Z")

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