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…

The issue was create in the UI @sam , I submit a PR to fix it. FIX: Don't accept accents in slug if generation_method == 'ascii' main ← megothss:fix-slug-provide-with-non-ascii-chars merged 02:46AM …

This setting is set to ascii in my instance since I don’t really want accents in the slugs, But in I’ve accidentally misplaced the text fields and typed the name (with the accent) in the slug text field. Which I think overrode the generated one. Then after that, I could not enter the edit page of …

Was this issue created via the UI or did you use the console to make the slug change? Can you repro the issue, should we recategorize as bug ?

Oh awesome @saquetim Thanks so much.

404 when trying to edit category with accent in slug

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JammyDodger January 13, 2022, 4:55pm 2

I believe setting the slug generation method setting to ‘encoded’ can help with that:

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404 when trying to edit category with accent in slug

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