# Cannot delete or edit categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 17, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415 "2021-12-17T08:30:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@terapeuttiville](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terapeuttiville)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415/1 "2021-12-17T08:30:54Z")
Hi
Starting a new discourse and ran in a problem, where i cant delete or edit a few categories. Most of the categories are working normal.
[https://willfeel.trydiscourse.com/c/työ/16](https://willfeel.trydiscourse.com/c/ty%C3%B6/16)
[https://willfeel.trydiscourse.com/c/säännöt/20](https://willfeel.trydiscourse.com/c/s%C3%A4%C3%A4nn%C3%B6t/20)
i guess it has something to do with the tags dont working with finnish letters äö 😃
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415/2 "2021-12-17T09:58:25Z")
If you can get to rails then you can do something like
```plaintext
/var/discourse/launcher enter app
rails c
c=Category.find(123)
c.name='safe name'
c.save
```
You’ll need to type a q to get out of the viewer after the find. 123 is the category I’d.
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### Author:  [@terapeuttiville](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terapeuttiville)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415/3 "2021-12-17T13:50:03Z")
Got the help allready! thanks
This issue happened because the `Category Slug` field was accented.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415/4 "2021-12-17T14:10:04Z")
Someone else just had a very similar issue, and it was suggested to change this setting:
> [@Why is there a category that I can't modify](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-there-a-category-that-i-cant-modify/212445/9):
>
> Indeed https://your.domain/admin/site\_settings/category/all\_results?filter=slug%20generation, it should be set to encoded
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-or-edit-categories/212415/5 "2022-01-21T14:05:02Z")
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