Hello everyone! I’m having trouble formatting the url. is being generated automatically in questions and adds accents. ex: https://cashlandia.com.br/c/dívidas/10 in the browser it looks like this: https://cashlandia.com.br/c/dívidas/10 what I try to do is: https://cashlandia.com.br/c/dividas/10 [image]

You will need to: Change the site setting slug generation method to encoded Refresh the page Go and edit the problematic category, change the slug to an ascii one Head back and revert the site setting change

I had trouble understanding the issue, but copy-pasting the direct link helped me get it. I think it’s not discourse’s fault tho, you should avoid special characters in category slugs Keep the Dívidas category name, but use dividas as a category slug [image] Other wise, when the category slug is saved with the accent, it will be changed right away: [image]

the category is this: https://cashlandia.com.br/c/dívidas/10 however I realized after it was generated, the others I managed to edit, but it gave an error 404 when I was going to edit and this was the only one that doesn’t run out of the accent. even the questions were being added with accents when I had them. but the questions were normal without touching anything now, I just cleared the cache. this category does not edit, it deletes

Change the site setting slug generation method to encoded if you want special chacacters in your URLs.

exactly that, I do not want and even so it generates with accents. look how it is, the pattern is what i don’t understand [image]

@Falco, I’ve had the same problem. [image] 404 when trying to edit category with accent in slug Support Hi, I’ve accidentally created a new category with an accent in the slug and the settings below. After creating this category, clicking on the “Edit Button” in the new category was redirecting to the 404 page. => #<Category:0x00005624cbc90838 id: 182, name: "Sugestões", color: "F7941D", topic_id: 257800, topic_count: 0, created_at: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:11:40.677256000 UTC +00:00, updated_at: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:11:40.677256000 UTC +00:00, user_id: 2, topics_year: 0, topics_month: 0, to… The slug generation method is set to ascii but I accidentally typed the slug with an accent. After that I couldn’t enter the edit page of the category. In the end I fixed the problem entering the rails console and fixing the slug there. It’s not totally Discourse fault since that depends on the user typing an accent when there shouldn’t be one. But it would be cool if the system checked if the slug typed has only ASCII characters if the slug generation method is set to ascii.

Formatting and accents in urls

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Falco (Falco) January 24, 2022, 12:33am 6

You will need to:

Change the site setting slug generation method to encoded
Refresh the page
Go and edit the problematic category, change the slug to an ascii one
Head back and revert the site setting change

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Formatting and accents in urls

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