# Masking special characters submitting seachr-strings to websources

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-special-characters-submitting-seachr-strings-to-websources/18166>\
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-special-characters-submitting-seachr-strings-to-websources/18166 "2016-08-11T10:31:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-special-characters-submitting-seachr-strings-to-websources/18166/1 "2016-08-11T10:31:49Z")

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Some websources (i.e. Spotify) don't accept special characters like german "Umlaute" if they are submitted in a search string.  
Amazon does but delivers different results, if you replace an Umlaut or if you don't replace.

Mostly it works if you i.e. change manually an é to an e, ç to c, Ü to u.  
But with "German Umlaute" it is not always possible to get results this way.  
Is there a way to mask this [Searchby]-string somehow universally to get results?