# Filter Expression For Non-Ascii Characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-expression-for-non-ascii-characters/62572
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 27, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-expression-for-non-ascii-characters/62572 "2023-10-27T20:33:47Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-expression-for-non-ascii-characters/62572/8 "2023-10-28T06:37:48Z")

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Or see this thread:

> [@Regular expression to filter path names with diacritics](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-to-filter-path-names-with-diacritics/12909):
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> Some software (in my case I'm thinking of MusicIP) cannot handle file and path names that contain diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.: e.g., é, â, ü, ñ). But you may already have a lot of such paths in your music folders. Here is a filter that will find all these files: NOT %\_path% MATCHES ^[a-zA-Z0-9\W\_]\*$

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