# Is there an easy way to remove apostrophes and grave accents from filenames

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 24, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468 "2023-03-24T10:51:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mmain](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mmain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mmain)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468/1 "2023-03-24T10:51:16Z")

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Is there an easy to convert saved filenames into only ascii characters, specifically without UTF-8 apostrophes and grave accents.

Manually I can overtype an apostrophe and end up with the ascii variant, but this is cumbersome

I looked at the regex threads and could not find anything which seemed to match

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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:** [March 24, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468/2 "2023-03-24T10:54:20Z")

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If you want to replace 1 character with another, then an action of the type "Replace" would be sufficient.

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**Author:** ![mmain](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mmain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mmain)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468/3 "2023-03-24T11:05:56Z")

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If I simply use REPLACE ' it does not detect it's UTF character 0x92

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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:** [March 24, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468/4 "2023-03-24T11:07:27Z")

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If there are characters that look like another character and then do not lead to any hits, it is easiest to copy the character in question and paste it to the action as search term

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-remove-apostrophes-and-grave-accents-from-filenames/60468/5 "2023-04-23T11:07:30Z")

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