# Tag -\> Filename without unicode chars - stops mp3gain working!
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353 "2009-11-17T11:46:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@tjrundy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tjrundy)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353/1 "2009-11-17T11:46:38Z")
Hi,
I've been using mp3tag to get my music collection in order, though I now have a problem with mp3gain.
mp3tag will save unicode chars in tag into the filename when you use the tag -\> filename function.
Sadly, mp3gain won't read unicode filenames (except for the beta version which introduces some filename problems of its own).
Thus, I wonder if anyone know how I could get mp3tag to ignore unicode chars when renaming the file?
Thanks in advance,
Tom.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353/2 "2009-11-17T12:29:37Z")
How do I know if it is an unicode filename or not?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353/3 "2009-11-17T14:49:05Z")
> [@tjrundy](#):
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> ... I wonder if anyone know how I could get mp3tag to ignore unicode chars ...
Read there:
[Unicode to ASCII](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/7279/1)
DD.20091117.1648.CET
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### Author:  [@tjrundy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tjrundy)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353/4 "2009-11-17T15:01:50Z")
Super!
Thanks for that - I did search, but that didn't come up...
In my case I could tell that the filename had unicode chars because they were obvious non-latin chars (e.g. thai / chinese)
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-without-unicode-chars-stops-mp3gain-working/9353/5 "2026-02-09T12:21:57Z")