# Failing to handle ZWJ ZWNJ
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [January 15, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699 "2023-01-15T00:55:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/1 "2023-01-15T00:55:28Z")
format tag field:
Field: \_DIRECTORY
Format: %ALBUM%
1. Album (it has ZWNJ): "ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್"
2. Album (it has ZWJ): "ರ್ಯಾಂಕ್"
After the formatting is completed. The directory name will be
1. Directory (without ZWNJ): "ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್"
2. Directory (without ZWJ): "ರ್ಯಾಂಕ್"
Format function drops ZWNJ (u+200C) and ZWJ (u+200D). Both are invisible(non-printing) characters. Mac accepts them when I edit the folder directly. So, it is definitely the mp3tag, "format tag field" that is dropping the invisible(non-printing) characters.
This could be true for other invisible(non-printing) characters Non-breaking space NBSP U+00A0
Please rectify
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/2 "2023-01-16T18:28:33Z")
@Florian Please review this.
It is a bug, needs to be fixed.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/3 "2023-01-16T19:30:15Z")
I'm not sure yet, most users are not aware of those special characters and those of Unicode General Category Cc and Cf have caused a lot of hard-to-identify support issues in the past.
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/4 "2023-01-17T00:11:37Z")
They are not a strange characters, it’s part of standard Unicode set, OS should handle it just fine.
It is working fine in all tags, just the \_DIRECTORY field it’s failing
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/5 "2023-01-17T05:02:07Z")
or At least is there a work around to this issue. I want to batch process folder names in unicode. It is possible they will have ZWJ, ZWNJ and I want to retain them
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 6:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/6 "2023-01-25T06:17:18Z")
@Florian can u please enable at least ZWJ and ZWNJ, it is fully supported in Mac OS filesystem. It is required many scripts in unicode.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/7 "2023-01-27T07:29:22Z")
I've added support for ZWJ and ZWNJ with [Mp3tag for Mac v1.7.3](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-for-mac-v1-7-released/59421/5).
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/8 "2023-01-27T16:35:56Z")
@Florian Thank you very much.
I greatly appreciate the changes
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### Author:  [@rajanna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rajanna)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/9 "2023-01-27T16:37:41Z")
Also, I tested the renaming files in Mac OS Ventura. There is no issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failing-to-handle-zwj-zwnj/59699/10 "2023-02-26T16:38:10Z")
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