# Year Field can be other scripts **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 7, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875 "2020-05-07T18:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/1 "2020-05-07T18:59:07Z")
Year field is limited to 0, 1, 2, ... (international numbers) It should be allowed to enter other scripts number also. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/2 "2020-05-07T19:11:10Z")
In MP3tag you can enter more less anything you want in the field YEAR, even "Two thousand and twenty". What do you mean? The standard, BTW expects a 4-digit-number. ---
**Author:** ![rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/3 "2020-05-07T20:01:07Z")
Yes 4-digit-number. But I want to enter in different script. 1990 in Kannada script is ೧೯೯೦ mp3tag changes it to ???? after saving the tags ---
**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:** [May 7, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/4 "2020-05-07T20:08:14Z")
This is where the standards rules: "TYER The 'Year' frame is a numeric string with a year of the recording. This frames is always four characters long (until the year 10000). " ([https://id3.org/id3v2.3.0](https://id3.org/id3v2.3.0)) So, no other characters are really according to the standard. And some fields are are never UTF encoded. the originally numeric ones belong to these. ---
**Author:** ![rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/5 "2020-05-07T20:21:08Z")
It is what it is then. Until the standard is updated. Perhaps the music player's can change the display language during localization. Excel is already doing it. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/6 "2020-05-07T20:27:06Z")
> [@rajanna](#): > > Excel is already doing it. Where does Excel read ID3 tags? ---
**Author:** ![rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/7 "2020-05-07T20:54:31Z")
I mean the formulas. You can use different languages to display the numbers using format. But the equations are still using Hindu-Arabic numericals. Same could happen in iTunes, when they support, Kannada as the display language. It will display Kannada numbers for year, track numbers, play counts, etc, but numbers stored in the system in Hindu-arabic numericals. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/8 "2020-05-08T04:53:07Z")
> [@rajanna](#): > > I mean the formulas. You can use different languages to display the numbers using format. MP3tag shows the strings as they are stored in the fields. And AFAIK these are arabic numbers. No character encoding is possible for this field, says the standard. Discussing the pros and cons of the standard is pointless in this forum IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Crissov](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/crissov/32/6619_2.png) [@Crissov](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Crissov)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/9 "2020-05-08T08:01:19Z")
Mp3tag should arguably support the _input_ of local digits and convert them to standard digits for storage. Media players should support the _output_ of local digits for display purposes and convert from standard digits stored in the file. ---
**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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-can-be-other-scripts/48875/10 "2026-02-09T12:28:34Z")