# Force Lowercase slug URLs when set to "encoded"

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [19 Giugno 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-lowercase-slug-urls-when-set-to-encoded/46036 "2016-06-19T14:50:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [20 Giugno 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-lowercase-slug-urls-when-set-to-encoded/46036/12 "2016-06-20T21:05:50Z")

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Because I want the keywords to be in the URL, even if they are written in Japanes, Chinese or any other non-English keywords.

If I use ascii, this topic title: “どういたしまして どういたしまして”

becomes

**/t/topic/17**

I used it in all my websites, it’s great for usability and make the URL meaningful in search engines after indexing, and it’s useful for SEO as well.

You already have a percentage encoding option, so you just need to apply lowercasing, so it will work as ASCII for English letters with small case and will be compatible with non-ASCII characters. Wordpress and all the other popular blog and forum software have this.

Google also shows the URL with the decoded characters, not the encoded ones.

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