# Remove Trailing Special Characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-special-characters/15584
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 14, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-special-characters/15584 "2014-03-14T01:44:20Z")
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### Author: ![nhtrader](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b9e5f3/32.png) [@nhtrader](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nhtrader)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-special-characters/15584/20 "2014-04-03T20:43:13Z")

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> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Instead of transforming the entire tag into ISO-8859-1 character encoding and back, you may use ...
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> Action "Format value" or Convert "Tag - Tag"
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> Field: ARTIST  
> Formatstring: **$regexp(%ARTIST%,'[[:unicode:]]',)**
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> This removes any extended character whose code point is above 255 in value.
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> DD.20140403.1619.CEST

Thanks for this improvement and thank you teaching me how to use a few more of MP3tag's powerful functions. It's truly amazing what you have built into MP3tag. I have yet to find something that it can not do.

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