# \[X\] APEv1 ANSI value not showing
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325 "2010-04-22T00:54:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@roytam1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/roytam1)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/1 "2010-04-22T00:54:51Z")
I have a huge collections of APE files which use MakeAPL to create APL files for playing in Winamp.
I noticed that APEv1 tag created by MAkeAPL uses ANSI but not UTF-8 to store tag value and MP3Tag makes these field become empty (if the field contains English only, it shows).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/2 "2010-04-23T11:00:55Z")
Can you please send me one of the problematic files?
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### Author:  [@roytam1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/roytam1)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/3 "2010-04-24T04:06:18Z")
Generated APL by MakeAPL is uploaded:
[http://www.mediafire.com/?ujjmagdykd4](http://www.mediafire.com/?ujjmagdykd4)
File Encoding is Big5 with [UAO](http://uao.cpatch.org/) NLS patched(CP 950).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/4 "2010-04-28T04:03:53Z")
APE tags are always encoded in UTF-8, so other encodings are not supported.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@roytam1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/roytam1)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/5 "2010-04-28T14:09:18Z")
From its SPEC: [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=APEv1](http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=APEv1)
APEv1 use ASCII/ANSI encoding. It uses UTF-8 in later for a short time, then use APEv2 instead of v1.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-apev1-ansi-value-not-showing/10325/6 "2018-12-28T14:29:49Z")
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