# Filter (for latin letters in greek artist or title) not working as expected
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928 "2023-05-09T20:56:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/1 "2023-05-09T20:56:58Z")
Why this is not working.
`* MATCHES [A-Z]`
on this artist and title names in a list:
Στέλιος καζαντζίδhς (artist tag problem letter h)
H κοινωνία (title tag problem letter H)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/2 "2023-05-10T05:22:14Z")
> [@Stem75](#):
>
> - MATCHES [A-Z]
`*` is no field name.
See the documentation on the filter syntax:
> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/)**
>
> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Try
`%artist% MATCHES [A-Z] OR %title% MATCHES [A-Z]`
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/3 "2023-05-10T06:37:51Z")
Yes i tried it and it works but the documentation says this:
MATCHES
Returns only files where the content of the tag field named matches against the regular expression . **You can use \* to address all fields**.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 6:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/4 "2023-05-10T06:47:05Z")
You are right.
Then the `*` was not the cause.
I just tried
`*` MATCHES [h]
and it returned all the files with an "h" in it, including
H κοινωνία
and
Στέλιος καζαντζίδhς
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 6:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/5 "2023-05-10T06:52:17Z")
I just tried again with
`*` MATCHES [h]
and it doesn't work for me. But i don't want `*` MATCHES [h] i need `*` MATCHES [A-Z]
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 6:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/6 "2023-05-10T06:58:03Z")
What am I supposed to test?
If I enter
> [@Stem75](#):
>
> `*` MATCHES [A-Z]
then I get all the files in my collection because they all contain one of the latin alphabet letters somewhere.
If I use the restricted one, looking only for the "h", then I get all the other files plus the string that you supplied in your example.
I just tried
`* MATCHES [α]`
and I got only the files with
Στέλιος καζαντζίδhς
H κοινωνία
and
George Pallikaris | Γεώργιος Παλλικάρης
So I would think that the filter works.
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/7 "2023-05-10T07:19:18Z")
Ok.
The list is this:
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - h κοινωνία
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Το πιο πικρό ψωμί
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Θα πάω σ'άλλες πολιτείες
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Στο πιο όμορφο χαρέμι
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Βρε σαν τα χιόνια
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Καλύτερα μια μαχαιριά
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Σαν σήμερα χωρίσαμε
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Μη μου χαλάς τα γούστα μου
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Αν ήξερες ποιός είμαι εγώ
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Έφυγες και που μ'αφήνεις
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - H πρώτη σου αγάπη είμαι εγώ
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Ουίσκι, τζιν και φρούμελ
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Καταραμένη να 'σαι
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Μακάρι να πεθάνω
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Γειτονιά μου αγαπημένη
Στέλιος καζαντζίδhς - Χίλιες νύχτες όμορφες
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Το κόκκινο μαντήλι
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Το πουκάμισο
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Περασμένες 12
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Για μένα αστράφτει και βροντά
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Το κλάμα τHς πενιάς
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Φινίτα λα μούζικα
When i use \* MATCHES [Ξ] (the greek letter) it returns
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Αν ήξερες ποιός είμαι εγώ
but when i use \* MATCHES [H] (the english letter) i don't get this files
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - h κοινωνία
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - H πρώτη σου αγάπη είμαι εγώ
Στέλιος καζαντζίδhς - Χίλιες νύχτες όμορφες
Στέλιος καζαντζίδης - Το κλάμα τHς πενιάς
If i am not wrong when i enter \* MATCHES [H] or the \* MATCHES [A-Z] for this list not all the files contain latin alphabet letters in them???
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/8 "2023-05-10T07:22:46Z")
> [@Stem75](#):
>
> But i don't want `*` MATCHES [h] i need `*` MATCHES [A-Z]
I'm not perfectly sure, but AFAIK `[A-Z]` is looking for UPPERCASE latin letters A to Z, not finding lowercase one as in [a-z]. Could that be a reason?
For
**Χ** ίλιες νύχτες όμορφες
the first letter X is not a latin X it is a
U+03A7 : GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI
For
**Τ** ο κλάμα τHς πενιάς
the first letter T is not a latin T it is a
U+03A4 : GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/9 "2023-05-10T07:28:22Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
>
> lowercase
No, the filters are not case-sensitive.
If you want to have the files with "h" but not with "H" use
`* MATCHES (?-i)[h]`
Also it could be that adding inverted commas may help:
`* MATCHES "[A-Z]"`
But so far I always got the expcted hits.
Could it be tha the "h" only looks like a latin "h" but is a different character?
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/10 "2023-05-10T07:28:43Z")
Ok. I am asking a big SORRY for that but it was mind blowing.
`*` MATCHES [A-Z] matches everything because the filename or other tags has english characters in them.
after clearing everything it works fine.
Again SORRY.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/11 "2023-05-10T07:31:35Z")
So
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> `%artist% MATCHES [A-Z] OR %title% MATCHES [A-Z]`
is the solution: be as specific as possible?
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### Author:  [@Stem75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stem75)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/12 "2023-05-10T07:37:39Z")
Yes.
`%artist% MATCHES [A-Z] OR %title% MATCHES [A-Z]` is the right one.
Because i think that even if the filenames are in greek, the `*` captures the extension.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-latin-letters-in-greek-artist-or-title-not-working-as-expected/60928/13 "2023-06-09T07:37:56Z")
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