# \[X\] Export to HTML with 'special' characters gets error?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [November 30, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450 "2009-11-30T05:45:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Owen\_LA](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Owen_LA)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450/1 "2009-11-30T05:45:40Z")
Previous versions of mp3tag could export files to html with characters like the degree symbol (as in Celsius) or accent gravis, etc - now when I export, the characters have been replaced by funny symbols, if the browser is set (which it seems to be by default) to UTF-8. It looks like the Firefox browser doesn't like UTF-8 encoding/display for these newer files, so if I set the browser to Western Encoding, it works right. Same thing with IE 6.
What value do I set/edit in the Export 'html\_mp3tag.mte' file to set the default character set so that my browser can understand it? OR is it there that I have to look?
I attach two files, "15[degrees] Off Cool.html", and "Bill Engvall - 15[degrees] - Off Cool"
I notice that in the first [older version] file, the degree sign is represented by the hex "C2 B0" which is a non-printing ANSI 'Latin capital letter A with circumflex' followed by the ANSI 'degree sign', while in the second, the character is hex "BA", which is ANSI for 'masculine ordinal indicator'
Thanks - hope this makes sense ...
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[15\_\_\_Off\_Cool.html](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/4/43799a7f8162e0a2b7acde8c450a21bb723fc406.html) (4.3 KB)
[Bill\_Engvall\_\_\_15\_\_\_Off\_Cool.html](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b2288522f0fb4155d4eea550ac2c89f8717da6bc.html) (4.53 KB)
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450/2 "2009-11-30T07:33:26Z")
**$filename(html,utf-8)** must be at the beginning of the export file.
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### Author:  [@Owen\_LA](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Owen_LA)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450/3 "2009-11-30T20:33:37Z")
Thanks - it was "$filename(html)" - that did the trick!
Very impressive response time to post ... wow.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-export-to-html-with-special-characters-gets-error/9450/4 "2018-12-28T14:28:00Z")
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