# identify special character in folder name

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identify-special-character-in-folder-name/16483>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 6, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identify-special-character-in-folder-name/16483 "2015-01-06T19:24:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identify-special-character-in-folder-name/16483/1 "2015-01-06T19:24:15Z")

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hi

I'm trying to find out what this character is which looks like a longer dash –

I found it whilst inspecting my music folders. A normal dash looks like this - and an em dash created by alt 0151 looks like this —

Now I have to confess to being woefully (blissfully) ignorant about the world of dashes in windows until I found this one, which is midway in length between the short dash found between my zero key and my equals key and what I believe is the longest em dash.

I'd like to be able to find other examples of this dash in my directories and files to be able to eliminate them but copy and paste into a dos window seems to not work as I get a control u.

any hints and tips?

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