So I have an old system that uses Fat32 names and struggles with any non-ascii character in their display. This means: á,é,í,ó,ú,ü or something else is represented as AE? or similar. I would like to see if there is any function that will convert them into their closest ascii equivalent (á -> a, ç ->…

You can use $replace like this: $replace(%FIELDNAME_WITH_SPECIAL_CHARS%,á,a,é,e,í,i,ó,o,ú,u,Á,A,É,E,Í,I,Ó,O,Ú,U,ü,u,Ü,U,ñ,n,Ñ,N,è,e,ê,e,ì,i,î,i,ï,i,à,a,â,a,ò,o,ô,o,ù,u,û,u,ç,c,Ç,C,ß,ss,œ,oe,Œ,OE) From the documentation about "multiple parameter pairs y and z": [image]

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I saw those topics but validate does not help me. The problematic characters are valid (I can use á in a filename as long as it is on NTFS drive), but when copied to a fat32 device the á is replaced by Ã¡ so a song named: "ARTIST- Látigo" will be transferred as "ARTIST- LÃ¡tigo" This has two probl…

BTW: You are missing the german vowels ä Ä and ö Ö in your list :wink:

I have restricted the list to the ones that I have encountered on my collection. I used to use tagscanner and got the list from there, but it just stopped working for renaming files. It would be great to have a function with all variants of major european languages including the a with the circle o…

There is no function like "RemoveDiacritics" in Mp3tag. But you can easily find such ready-to-use lists online, like this or this .

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In case somewhere needs it this is the final function I have used: $validate($replace($upper(%artist%)- %title%,á,a,é,e,í,i,ó,o,ú,u,Á,A,É,E,Í,I,Ó,O,Ú,U,ü,u,Ü,U,ñ,n,Ñ,N,è,e,ê,e,ì,i,î,i,ï,i,à,a,â,a,ò,o,ô,o,ù,u,û,u,ç,c,Ç,C,ß,ss,œ,oe,Œ,OE,!,,¿,,ä,a,Ä,A,ö,o,Ö,O),) If you only need the replace part: …

Replace special characters (á -> a, ç -> c) from tags when naming the file

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