diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
index 3cc524bf..3ed7fb16 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/NameSimilarityMetric.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public class NameSimilarityMetric implements SimilarityMetric {
 		String name = object.toString();
 		
 		// normalize separators
-		name = name.replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}\\p{Space}]+", " ");
+		name = name.replaceAll("['`´]+", "").replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}\\p{Space}]+", " ");
 		
 		// normalize case and trim
 		return name.trim().toLowerCase();
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/SubstringMetric.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/SubstringMetric.java
index 461766af..f31c3edd 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/SubstringMetric.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/similarity/SubstringMetric.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ public class SubstringMetric implements SimilarityMetric {
 		String name = object.toString();
 		
 		// normalize separators
-		name = name.replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}\\p{Space}]+", " ");
+		name = name.replaceAll("['`´]+", "").replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}\\p{Space}]+", " ");
 		
 		// normalize case and trim
 		return name.trim().toLowerCase();