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Sentenza

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Is there a way to solve this little visualization problem with some special characters (like é ö à and so on)?
AIMP (and VLC) is ok.

psychoadept

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I've never had a problem with diacritics in MB. Are you using a non-standard font?
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Steven

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I am guessing these are mp3 files using ASCII encoding. MB uses the windows default codepage for decoding the ascii text, although the official ID3 encoding is ISO-8859-1 - from the early days of MB, I just found in many cases the windows default codepage works better for most people.
If you use MB for tagging, it uses UTF-16 encoding which prevents this type of issue from occurring.
If its an option in your tagger, use UTF-16 (eg. mp3Tag has that option)

Sentenza

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Ok, thanks for the explanations!
The tagger is CD-Tag: old and outdated, but it is the standard in some places and there isn't an option to change to UTF-16 encoding.
So it seems to me there is no solution, anyway it's not a big problem :)