# Remove Non English Characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-non-english-characters/15802
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 12, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-non-english-characters/15802 "2014-06-12T14:48:52Z")
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### Author: ![hallandym](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@hallandym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hallandym)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-non-english-characters/15802/1 "2014-06-12T14:48:52Z")

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I'm fairly ok with MP3 Tag, but I have a problem with non-English characters in the artist field I would like to remove.

For example

Katiana〸攀氀e䑃3

Should be

Katiana

Please help

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-non-english-characters/15802/2 "2014-06-12T16:41:57Z")

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> [@Andy Hall](#):
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> I'm fairly ok with MP3 Tag, but I have a problem with non-English characters in the artist field I would like to remove. ...

This should remove any extended character whose code point is above 255 in value ...

Action "Format value" or Convert "Tag - Tag"  
Field: ARTIST  
Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'[[:unicode:]]',)

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