ID3V2 Tag Encoding

[GHammer]

I can pick from ISO, UTF-8, and UTF-16
What is the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16?

Others use UTF-8 with 2.4 tags and UTF-16 with 2.3.
The Godfather uses only 2.3 tags.

[jtclipper]

In short, UTF8 will use single byte characters up to ASCII 127 and UTF16 will use double byte for everything.
As for 2.4 vs. 2.3 I am reluctant to mark the files as 2.4 because so many other software behave erratically with those tags it's rather annoying.

[MotRoUS]

I'm glad you know all this stuff. I have no idea what's going on.

[GHammer]

In short, UTF8 will use single byte characters up to ASCII 127 and UTF16 will use double byte for everything.
As for 2.4 vs. 2.3 I am reluctant to mark the files as 2.4 because so many other software behave erratically with those tags it's rather annoying.

So, for 'Western' charsets, UTF-8 ought to be good.

As for 2.4, I'm of two minds on that. Several apps now use 2.4 as default. Windows 7 however is a 2.3 stalwart, so...