# Problem with special characters at Tag - Filename
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-special-characters-at-tag-filename/1713
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 19, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-special-characters-at-tag-filename/1713 "2005-02-19T00:45:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@willmcelwain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/willmcelwain)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-special-characters-at-tag-filename/1713/1 "2005-02-19T00:45:37Z")
Thread split from [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1710/1)
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Excellent, that worked great. While I was renaming that album (Requiem for a Dream), I found another problem. All the tracks have a colon (🙂 in the track name, so when I go to rename them via "Tag - Filename", it'll say there are illegal characters in the filename. I tried adding a rule to the "Standard" Actions (in the Convert menu) to replace ":" with " -" in the \_FILENAME variable, but that didn't help. Is it not possible to run those Actions when doing "Tag - Filename"?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-special-characters-at-tag-filename/1713/2 "2005-02-19T08:29:42Z")
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> While I was renaming that album (Requiem for a Dream), I found another problem. All the tracks have a colon (🙂 in the track name, so when I go to rename them via "Tag - Filename", it'll say there are illegal characters in the filename. I tried adding a rule to the "Standard" Actions (in the Convert menu) to replace ":" with " -" in the \_FILENAME variable, but that didn't help. Is it not possible to run those Actions when doing "Tag - Filename"?
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Please open another topic, if your question has nothing to do with the topic of the thread.
To solve your problem, you might have a look at the $replace or the $validate scripting functions in the [Mp3tag Help](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-special-characters-at-tag-filename/1713/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:19Z")