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Mp3 Tag Assistant Professional - one of the first audio taggers with complete UNICODE support for tags, playlists and filelists.

You can open audio files with national (UNICODE) characters on audio tags and our software correctly will show this information (see Figure 1). You can create, change, delete, copy audio tags with national (UNICODE) characters, import these characters from XML, TXT and CSV files, export to XML, TXT and CSV files and playlists. The program interface support UNICODE characters also.

Using Mp3 Tag Assistant Professional you can use your national characters: diacritic symbols, umlauts, hieroglyphs easily and simply!

The some audio tag format can't support the UNICODE characters. For example, ID3v1 tags for MP3 files. We recommend to use ID3v2 tags for UNICODE support. WMA and M4A metadata and some other tag types support national (UNICODE) characters also.

UNICODE program settings

You must change settings of the program if you want to use national characters.

Open program Settings dialog (press the "F9" button).

Select "Unicode" tree item (see Figure 2) and change encoding for new tags, playlists or filelists.

Figure 2. UNICODE settings

Select "Font" tree item (see Figure 3) and change the program interface font. This font must support your national characters. We recommend to use "Arial Unicode MS" font.

The program uses a system default font by default. This font does not support the all UNICODE symbols.

Hint: you can find "Arial Unicode MS" font using Internet search.

Hint: if you have Microsoft Office 2000 or FrontPage 2000 you can get the "Arial Unicode MS" font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose "Add or Remove Features". Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.

Hint: if you have Microsoft Office XP/2003/2007, Visio 2003/2007 or Publisher 2002 you can get the "Arial Unicode MS" font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose "Add or Remove Features". Click the (+) next to Office Shared Features, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.

UNICODE settings
Figure 3. UNICODE font settings

Click the "Ok" button.

UNICODE tag
Figure 1. The UNICODE characters on lyrics

About "Arial Unicode MS"

The font "Arial Unicode MS" (© Microsoft) is a complete Unicode font, containing all of the approximately 40,000 alphabetical characters, ideographic characters, and symbols defined in the Unicode 2.1 standard.

Ranges:

Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A; Latin Extended-B; IPA Extensions; Spacing Modifier Letters; Combining Diacritical Marks; Greek; Cyrillic; Armenian; Hebrew; Arabic; Devanagari; Bengali; Gurmukhi; Gujarati; Oriya; Tamil; Telugu; Kannada; Malayalam; Thai; Lao; Tibetan; Georgian; Hangul Jamo; Latin Extended Additional; Greek Extended; General Punctuation; Superscripts and Subscripts; Currency Symbols; Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols; Letterlike Symbols; Number Forms; Arrows; Mathematical Operators; Miscellaneous Technical; Control Pictures; Optical Character Recognition; Enclosed Alphanumerics; Box Drawing; Block Elements; Geometric Shapes; Miscellaneous Symbols; Dingbats; CJK Symbols and Punctuation; Hiragana; Katakana; Bopomofo; Hangul Compatibility Jamo; Kanbun; Enclosed CJK Letters and Months; CJK Compatibility; CJK Unified Ideographs; Hangul Syllables; CJK Compatibility Ideographs; Alphabetic Presentation Forms; Arabic Presentation Forms-A; Combining Half Marks; CJK Compatibility Forms; Small Form Variants; Arabic Presentation Forms-B; Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms; Specials

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How can I use my national characters on audio tags?

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