# Filtering Chinese or Japanese Characters?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090 "2020-09-01T17:09:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@SpirosG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SpirosG)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090/1 "2020-09-01T17:09:59Z")
Hi, is there any way to filter files which could contain Chinese or Japanese characters?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090/2 "2020-09-01T17:20:22Z")
Here is a thread that deals with "non English" characters - perhaps something along your way:
> [@Splitting a title with mixed English and non-English](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-a-title-with-mixed-english-and-non-english/49284):
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> Suppose I have song title in which the first part is in English and then the second part is title within the song's language. So like "I'm Watching a Loneliness Just Arisen 나는 새롭게 떠오른 외로움을 봐요", where the first half is English and the second half is the Korean name. Is there a $regexp formula I can use so that I can capture group the English part and then the Korean part? I want to move the Korean part to the %title% tag and then the English part to the %titlesort% tag. As per the example I men…
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### Author:  [@SpirosG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SpirosG)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090/3 "2020-09-01T18:52:31Z")
This helped!
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-chinese-or-japanese-characters/50090/4 "2026-02-09T12:28:48Z")