The dot «.» symbol is stripped from a category slug

If you look at the modal, it reads

Category Slug

(Optional) dashed-words for url

Not a problem as long as someone knows what format slugs have.
Not a problem as long as someone knows what is and isn’t a word.

It seems seeing “dashed-words” would be clue enough.
And coders would understand [-a-z]+

But I can’t think of any way things could be made more clear so that everyone would understand what it does.