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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 13, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329 "2016-10-13T17:22:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:**  [@regi100](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/regi100)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/1 "2016-10-13T17:22:59Z")
dear team,
may I kindly ask you to help in the issue I am facing.
Unfortunately in my html export file no special character like ü,ö,ä, ... are displayed corectly.
for example - output:
Andr� Heller / instead: André Heller
Danzer / B�er / Baum / instead: Bär
where and what do I have to put in my \*.mte file to get rid of that?
thank you very much for your support!
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**Author:**  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/2 "2016-10-13T17:50:35Z")
you will find a table of replacements for html characters
like [https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Referenz:HTML/Zeichenreferenz](https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Referenz:HTML/Zeichenreferenz)
you then create a statement like
$replace(%artist%,ä,ä,ü,&uauml;)
etc.
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**Author:**  [@regi100](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/regi100)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/3 "2016-10-13T18:00:52Z")
thank you for your fast response ohrenkino!
that sounds definitely like a plan - it will work 🙂
question is still where to put that statement, head, style, table, body?
thx in advance!
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**Author:**  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/4 "2016-10-13T18:04:17Z")
> [@regi](#):
>
> thank you for your fast response ohrenkino!
>
> that sounds definitely like a plan - it will work 🙂
>
> question is still where to put that statement, head, style, table, body?
>
> thx in advance,
> lg aus wien 🙂
I bet that you have to transform/replace every field where Umlauts can be expected.
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**Author:**  [@regi100](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/regi100)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/5 "2016-10-13T18:07:17Z")
ouch, that kind of hurts... is there no other gently solution how to get this done?
thx and cheers!
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**Author:**  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/6 "2016-10-13T18:23:57Z")
I think that _every_ special character has to be replaced ... so where do you see a more "gentle" approach?
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**Author:**  [@regi100](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/regi100)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/7 "2016-10-13T18:25:47Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> I think that _every_ special character has to be replaced ... so where do you see a more "gentle" approach?
nevermind, I thought that it could be much easier achieved.
I will do so, thanks of course again for your kind help!
cheers
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**Author:**  [@regi100](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/regi100)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/8 "2016-10-14T09:02:14Z")
I knew it - played again around a bit and found out that there is a much more easier and elegant way to work around with the special chars.
just put in the line of the export file path: ,utf-8
$filename(C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\index.html,utf-8)
That will do the trick 😆
cheers!
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**Author:**  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-to-html-special-characters/18329/9 "2026-02-09T12:26:28Z")