# Replace the X language specific characters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 25, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926 "2012-09-25T15:01:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@i\_edgars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/i_edgars)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/1 "2012-09-25T15:01:34Z")
How can I replace the X language specific characters UTF-8 (such as the Latvian language) to Latin characters, but only the file names, but not to replace them in tags?
How to do it in one go, without having to type:
Ā \> A ā \> a
Č \> C č \> c
Ē \> E ē \> e
Ģ \> G ģ \> g
Ī \> I ī \> i, etc.
14 - Imants Skrastiņš - Kamolā tinēja - (Sapņu pīpe) - 2001 \>
14 - Imants Skrastins - Kamola tineja - (Sapnu pipe) - 2001
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/2 "2012-09-26T03:43:13Z")
I am afraid that there is hardly any way around than creating an actiongroup that has an entry for each pair or characters.
I cannot think of a formalized approach (e.g. subtract a certain value from the code number or the character) as you want to match several characters with a single one.
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### Author:  [@i\_edgars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/i_edgars)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/3 "2012-09-29T09:57:59Z")
Thanks, I just also wanted to find out.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/4 "2012-09-29T10:05:34Z")
Some users have already made actions for this:
[Share your custom Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1722/16)
[/t/5157/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5157/1)
[/t/10081/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10081/1)
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### Author:  [@i\_edgars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/i_edgars)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/5 "2012-10-01T14:40:54Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> Some users have already made actions for this:
> [Share your custom Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1722/16)
> [/t/5157/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5157/1)
> [/t/10081/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10081/1)
> [@Share your custom Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/share-your-custom-actions/1722/16):
>
> I've created actions for translit-detranslit conversion for russian characters.
> See attachment.
> Attached File(s)
> Attached File translit.zip ( 1.31K ) Number of downloads: 1665
How do I import this action?
v 2.50
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### Author:  [@i\_edgars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/i_edgars)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/6 "2012-10-01T14:53:53Z")
Thanks - I did it!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-the-x-language-specific-characters/13926/7 "2026-02-09T12:24:04Z")