# How to find tags with "Combining Character" Diacritics?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-tags-with-combining-character-diacritics/69945
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 8, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-tags-with-combining-character-diacritics/69945 "2025-10-08T09:18:45Z")
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### Author:  [@Apesbrain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Apesbrain)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-tags-with-combining-character-diacritics/69945/1 "2025-10-08T09:18:46Z")
Every so often I’ve run into characters in tags that behave strangely. It takes two backspaces to remove them; the first backspace only removes the diacritic symbol. I’ve just learned these are “[Combining Characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character)”.
Can a filter be set that will find tags that contain these characters? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-tags-with-combining-character-diacritics/69945/2 "2025-10-08T09:34:16Z")
You could specifically [filter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/) for such characters with something like:
`* MATCHES [\x{20D0}-\x{20FF}]`
or any other combination listed in the "Unicode range" part on the linked wikipedia page.
You can replace `*` with any of your field names, like `TITLE` or `ARTIST`.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-tags-with-combining-character-diacritics/69945/3 "2025-11-07T09:35:08Z")
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