# Fail on high-codepoint characters

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 24, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045 "2014-08-24T17:12:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045/1 "2014-08-24T17:12:08Z")

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Anyone know why formatting a field to **{$char(&H200C)}** [http://i.imgur.com/5bPFE8W.png](http://i.imgur.com/5bPFE8W.png) gives just **{** [http://i.imgur.com/npWz9uU.png](http://i.imgur.com/npWz9uU.png) ?

Same results with other zero-width Unicode characters.

And how to workaround this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045/2 "2014-08-25T05:52:25Z")

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> [@chrisjj](#):
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> Anyone know why formatting a field to **{$char(&H200C)}**... And how to workaround this? Thanks.

Please load up pictures directly together with your board message to the Mp3tag server.  
I dislike to connect to foreign servers.

You want to use the unicode character ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER.  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width\_non-joiner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner)

Hmm, do you think that this is the correct syntax _$char(&H200C)_ in Mp3tag?  
Indeed it does work with _$char(8204)_.

Try this formatstring ...

**'Mp3'$char(8204)'tag ### '$len('Mp3'$char(8204)'tag')**

Using the OpenOffice font "Unicode Symbols", or some other full unicode font, you will see the text "Mp3tag" with a length of 7 characters.

DD.20140825.0952.CEST

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**Author:** ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045/3 "2014-08-25T08:58:15Z")

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> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Hmm, do you think that this is the correct syntax _$char(&H200C)_ in Mp3tag?

Oops, my mistake.

> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Indeed it does work with _$char(8204)_.

That works here too. Thanks D.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fail-on-high-codepoint-characters/16045/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:12Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC