# Reducing filename to ASCII

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reducing-filename-to-ascii/3971
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 29, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reducing-filename-to-ascii/3971 "2006-10-29T17:49:17Z")
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reducing-filename-to-ascii/3971/1 "2006-10-29T17:49:17Z")

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Can anyone suggest how to program an Action to reduce filenames to ASCII, i.e. replacing any international characters with their ASCII base equivalents, such as ñ -\> n ? Thanks.

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