# \[X\] Unicode BOM

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [December 26, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681 "2005-12-26T22:19:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![geoelectric](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e9a140/32.png) [@geoelectric](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/geoelectric)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681/1 "2005-12-26T22:19:00Z")

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This may not be your problem, but it's worth checking. I can't use the Album Art Downloader found at [http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/](http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/) on any MP3 file you've saved Unicode tags in. It complains that the Byte Order Mark isn't found. Now, I know id3v2 makes the BOM optional, but you have to set the frame field that determines with the tag is Unicode or ISO8859-1 to the value that says "I'm using Unicode with no BOM".

Any chance you're setting it to the one that says there's a BOM there, and then not including one? If not, it's the other guy's bug, but I wanted to make sure.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681/2 "2005-12-26T22:43:10Z")

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> [@](#):
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> it's the other guy's bug

Exactly.

But you can also write ISO-8859-1 tags in Mp3tag if other programs you use can't handle unicode.

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### Author: ![geoelectric](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e9a140/32.png) [@geoelectric](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/geoelectric)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681/3 "2005-12-27T04:03:30Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Exactly.
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> But you can also write ISO-8859-1 tags in Mp3tag if other programs you use can't handle unicode.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Yep, that's what I did.

Thanks!

Geo

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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: [December 28, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-unicode-bom/2681/4 "2018-12-28T14:15:23Z")

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