diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 192c37357..1ca3a3123 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ver 0.21.14 (not yet released)
 * decoder
   - sidplay: show track durations in database
+  - sidplay: convert tag values from Windows-1252 charset
 
 ver 0.21.13 (2019/08/06)
 * input
diff --git a/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx b/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
index d38010872..619ef38f6 100644
--- a/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "song/DetachedSong.hxx"
 #include "fs/Path.hxx"
 #include "fs/AllocatedPath.hxx"
+#include "lib/icu/Converter.hxx"
 #ifdef HAVE_SIDPLAYFP
 #include "fs/io/FileReader.hxx"
 #include "util/RuntimeError.hxx"
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@
 #include "util/Macros.hxx"
 #include "util/StringFormat.hxx"
 #include "util/Domain.hxx"
+#include "util/AllocatedString.hxx"
+#include "util/CharUtil.hxx"
 #include "system/ByteOrder.hxx"
 #include "Log.hxx"
 
@@ -432,19 +435,46 @@ sidplay_file_decode(DecoderClient &client, Path path_fs)
 	} while (cmd != DecoderCommand::STOP);
 }
 
+static AllocatedString<char>
+Windows1252ToUTF8(const char *s) noexcept
+{
+#ifdef HAVE_ICU_CONVERTER
+	try {
+		std::unique_ptr<IcuConverter>
+			converter(IcuConverter::Create("windows-1252"));
+
+		return converter->ToUTF8(s);
+	} catch (...) { }
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Fallback to not transcoding windows-1252 to utf-8, that may result
+	 * in invalid utf-8 unless nonprintable characters are replaced.
+	 */
+	auto t = AllocatedString<char>::Duplicate(s);
+
+	for (size_t i = 0; t[i] != AllocatedString<char>::SENTINEL; i++)
+		if (!IsPrintableASCII(t[i]))
+			t[i] = '?';
+
+	return t;
+}
+
 gcc_pure
-static const char *
+static AllocatedString<char>
 GetInfoString(const SidTuneInfo &info, unsigned i) noexcept
 {
 #ifdef HAVE_SIDPLAYFP
-	return info.numberOfInfoStrings() > i
+	const char *s = info.numberOfInfoStrings() > i
 		? info.infoString(i)
-		: nullptr;
+		: "";
 #else
-	return info.numberOfInfoStrings > i
+	const char *s = info.numberOfInfoStrings > i
 		? info.infoString[i]
-		: nullptr;
+		: "";
 #endif
+
+	return Windows1252ToUTF8(s);
 }
 
 static void
@@ -452,27 +482,25 @@ ScanSidTuneInfo(const SidTuneInfo &info, unsigned track, unsigned n_tracks,
 		TagHandler &handler) noexcept
 {
 	/* title */
-	const char *title = GetInfoString(info, 0);
-	if (title == nullptr)
-		title = "";
+	const auto title = GetInfoString(info, 0);
 
 	if (n_tracks > 1) {
 		const auto tag_title =
 			StringFormat<1024>("%s (%u/%u)",
-					   title, track, n_tracks);
-		handler.OnTag(TAG_TITLE, tag_title);
+					   title.c_str(), track, n_tracks);
+		handler.OnTag(TAG_TITLE, tag_title.c_str());
 	} else
-		handler.OnTag(TAG_TITLE, title);
+		handler.OnTag(TAG_TITLE, title.c_str());
 
 	/* artist */
-	const char *artist = GetInfoString(info, 1);
-	if (artist != nullptr)
-		handler.OnTag(TAG_ARTIST, artist);
+	const auto artist = GetInfoString(info, 1);
+	if (!artist.empty())
+		handler.OnTag(TAG_ARTIST, artist.c_str());
 
 	/* date */
-	const char *date = GetInfoString(info, 2);
-	if (date != nullptr)
-		handler.OnTag(TAG_DATE, date);
+	const auto date = GetInfoString(info, 2);
+	if (!date.empty())
+		handler.OnTag(TAG_DATE, date.c_str());
 
 	/* track */
 	handler.OnTag(TAG_TRACK, StringFormat<16>("%u", track));