# Special characters in Traktor Collection
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [June 1, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594 "2019-06-01T19:01:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594/1 "2019-06-01T19:01:06Z")
Have you had any issues with Traktor Collection not liking certain characters?
I had an "é" in a couple of filenames/artists and Traktor seems to strip them out in the .nml...
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### Author:  [@bascurtiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bascurtiz)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594/2 "2019-06-01T19:19:42Z")
Hmm, not that I'm aware of. I'll test later if you can sent me some tracknames to d/l.
But this is unrelated to this topic tho?
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594/3 "2019-06-01T19:58:36Z")
I'm getting the rating (\*'s) value out of Traktor for use elsewhere. I need to search the Collection.nml to get the rating value, and I've noticed that Traktors Collection omits characters with accents on any of the letters.
So any French/Spanish etc.. artist names don't match the .mp3 filename or artist tags in the Traktor Collection...
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### Author:  [@bascurtiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bascurtiz)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594/4 "2019-06-01T23:10:44Z")
I got flagged in my latest comment, for asking you, if this isn't off-topic.
I still think this is more a Traktor-issue than related to this topic/mp3tag.
There is an issue posted on their official forum here: [https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/pro-3-character-encoding-problem.343177/](https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/pro-3-character-encoding-problem.343177/)
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/special-characters-in-traktor-collection/45594/5 "2019-06-02T07:18:24Z")
Sorry about that bas.
I'm quite sure this is a Traktor issue. I've ruled it out in MP3Tag and iTunes - so, yes, it looks like it lies with Traktor.
Bit of a pain, that is. So now I'm looking for a way (I asked in this thread: [Remove Trailing Special Characters](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-special-characters/15584/20) apologies Florian if this has made extra work for you!) if there's a way to remove all accented/special/foreign characters across all tags and filename. Maybe an %ALL% action?