# Strip all accents from accented characters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514 "2022-09-19T12:08:45Z")
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### Author:  [@steve1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/steve1)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514/1 "2022-09-19T12:08:45Z")
Is there a way to strip all accents from accented characters (for example: à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù = a, e, i, o, u A, E, I, O, U)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514/2 "2022-09-19T12:11:43Z")
See this thread on the basic technique:
> [@Change Tags and Filenames without polish diacritical/accents marks](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-tags-and-filenames-without-polish-diacritical-accents-marks/47394):
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> Hello i need to change name of all files and id3tags and replace special accents and characters ą ę ć ź ż ó and others shits to a e c z z o (Serato dj have problem with found files location with special accents) Im found at forum a post with .mta files [Unicode to ASCII](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-to-ascii/7279) and i add this to actions. Scripts dont gives a error but Change name and change tags is 0/23492349... files Somebody can help me?
You probably have to write your own list of replacement pairs
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514/3 "2022-09-19T12:12:08Z")
> [@steve1](#):
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> Is there a way to strip all accents from accented characters (for example: à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù = a, e, i, o, u A, E, I, O, U)
Not automatically for ALL accented characters, but for the ones you define:
> [@Replace special characters (á -\> a, ç -\> c) from tags when naming the file](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-special-characters-a-a-c-c-from-tags-when-naming-the-file/58399/4):
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> 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](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting/) about "multiple parameter pairs y and z":
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-all-accents-from-accented-characters/58514/4 "2022-10-19T12:12:12Z")
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