Turkish characters are corrupted after saving tags (encoding issue)

[arg0WAK]

Describe the Bug/Crash

I am experiencing an encoding issue when editing audio metadata using SimpleTag Audio.

After saving tags that contain Turkish characters, they appear corrupted. For example:

• "Altın Kafes" becomes "Altın Kafes"
• "Ş" becomes "ÅŸ"
• "Ö" becomes "Ö"

This looks like a UTF-8 text being interpreted as ISO-8859-1 (or similar encoding mismatch).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open an MP3 file
2. Edit metadata (Title, Artist, etc.) using Turkish characters
3. Save the tags
4. Reopen the file or check in another music player

The issue is reproducible consistently.

I have attached screenshots showing the problem.

Describe the intended behavior

Turkish characters should be saved and displayed correctly.

For example:

• "Altın Kafes" should remain unchanged
• Special characters like "ş", "ı", "ö", "ü" should not be corrupted

Tags should be written using a proper encoding such as UTF-16 or UTF-8 in ID3v2.

What android version do you use?

Android 16

What device model do you use?

Redmi Note 14 4G (HyperOS 3 Android 16)
Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA Android 13)

Bug report

This seems to be related to how ID3 tags are written.

Possibly:

• Tags are being saved using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8/UTF-16
• Or UTF-8 text is written but read/interpreted incorrectly

The corruption persists across different music players, which suggests the issue is in the written metadata itself rather than just display.

It may help to explicitly set ID3v2 encoding (e.g. UTF-16) when writing tags.

Duplicates

• I have checked this issue for duplicates.
• I have checked that this issue occurs on the lastest version.

[sergcam]

will look into this