# Unicode to ASCII

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-to-ascii/7279
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** howto
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-to-ascii/7279 "2008-10-03T13:00:53Z")
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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-to-ascii/7279/1 "2008-10-03T13:00:53Z")

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I have created six actionsgroups for the purpose of transcoding UTF-8 Unicode characters into 7-bit ASCII characters (see attached MTA files).

Each group of actions encloses a special set of Unicode characters, so that you are free to combine what replacement presentation you need.

The transcoding scheme is derived from the script 'uni2ascii.c', version 2008-08-30T20:27:37, by William J. Poser (billposer@alum.mit.edu), including some small changes by me.

I do not know if the MTA files will do their work error free in all cases, this task to check it out is to you.

[UniToAsc.Diacritics.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/7ea91557d2856aaeddc293f8ebfac0dfd3befdef.mta) (8.64 KB)  
[UniToAsc.Enclosed.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/b018c9a5093053655b99c5e06cc12dc878de3f2c.mta) (3.52 KB)  
[UniToAsc.Equiv.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/8aa98dd15701ab733e1da8f24f33e10f586e22bf.mta) (1.22 KB)  
[UniToAsc.Expand.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/83bbb47b1f09f7cc2a4feabbb93349fa3a1be6db.mta) (2.21 KB)  
[UniToAsc.Style.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/e2ec78491982a2ecd749bb1302d502cdb356a58f.mta) (12.5 KB)  
[UniToAsc.Symbols.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/5aa9525c41b2550cd5899229a259d57caee45edd.mta) (1.53 KB)  
[20090807.Transcoding\_scheme\_from\_Unicode\_to\_ASCII.pdf.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/1c84aad615d16823579f89dffa9fefebd16fcef6.zip) (153 KB)  
If there is some quirk in the transcoding scheme or if you have found out a neater transcoding scheme or if something otherwise is missing, then feel free to come back and report.

DD.20081003.1700.CEST  
Fixed some few quirks.  
Added rtf document for quick overview of character replacements.  
DD.20081005.2237.CEST  
Changed rtf document for quick overview of character replacements.  
DD.20081008.1317.CEST  
Changed rtf document to zipped pdf document.  
DD.20081008.1557.CEST  
Changed one error regarding character "a" in UniToAsc.Style.mta and related pdf document.  
History:  
UniToAsc.Style.mta ( 12.45K ) Number of downloads: 35  
Transcoding\_scheme\_from\_Unicode\_to\_ASCII.pdf.zip ( 151.59K ) Number of downloads: 139

[UniToAsc.Diacritics.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/7ea91557d2856aaeddc293f8ebfac0dfd3befdef.mta) (8.64 KB)

[UniToAsc.Enclosed.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/b018c9a5093053655b99c5e06cc12dc878de3f2c.mta) (3.52 KB)

[UniToAsc.Equiv.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/8aa98dd15701ab733e1da8f24f33e10f586e22bf.mta) (1.22 KB)

[UniToAsc.Expand.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/83bbb47b1f09f7cc2a4feabbb93349fa3a1be6db.mta) (2.21 KB)

[UniToAsc.Symbols.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/5aa9525c41b2550cd5899229a259d57caee45edd.mta) (1.53 KB)

[UniToAsc.Style.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/e2ec78491982a2ecd749bb1302d502cdb356a58f.mta) (12.5 KB)

[20090807.Transcoding\_scheme\_from\_Unicode\_to\_ASCII.pdf.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/1c84aad615d16823579f89dffa9fefebd16fcef6.zip) (153 KB)

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