I am puzzled by this bug that hit some time ago. I gave it some time to disappear, and this morning I tried changing the affected categories to see whether it would disappear, but it’s still there, forbidding access to a category that has been there for years. Symptoms I have a subcategory with (full) slug asbl:editions. I have another subcategory incoming:ps-editions-lesoiseaux-io. The latter is more recent. Whenever I tried to move a topic to the former category, or create a new topic there from the home page, etc., when I type editions, I only get the latter in the list, and not the former. There’s no log, no console error: it’s just not there. This is very annoying because it’s a very important category and many times I need to move relevant topics there. Troubleshooting I would like some guidance to understand how to track down this bug, because there’s no obvious way to do so. This is the only affected category. I tried: removing the slug and saving :slightly_frowning_face: removing the slug and saving in the other category :slightly_frowning_face: renaming the category to WTF: it appeared again in the dropdowns :slightly_smiling_face: renaming the category back to its original name (Éditions): it disappeared again… :slightly_frowning_face: I wonder if there is a reserved word issue, or some kind of confusion across category slugs, tags, groups… I have no duplicate name but variants: ps-editions, editions-ps, etc. that use the single word that is the missing category slug: editions. Maybe this is a lead? Thank you for your helpful attention.

Does it work if you name your category Editions instead of Éditions? :thinking: We might be missing a call or two to unaccent on the server side, as I think LIKE and ILIKE don’t work well with diacritics. SELECT 'Éditions' ILIKE '%editions%' ?column? ---------- f (1 row) and when using unaccent SELECT unaccent('Éditions') ILIKE unaccent('%editions%') ?column? ---------- t (1 row)

Thanks :sweat_smile: I’ve already made a PR for the fix :wink: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37622

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hellekin February 7, 2026, 6:57pm 4

Bien joué @zogstrip, this is thus a bug in supporting accents. I guess this must be common in non-English languages then.

Happy Discourse anniversary BTW

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