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 (fu…

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 …

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 :slight_smile:

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

We Lost Gorgeous George (unreachable category)

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zogstrip February 7, 2026, 7:09pm 5

Thanks

I’ve already made a PR for the fix

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37622

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We Lost Gorgeous George (unreachable category)

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