# Force Lowercase slug URLs when set to "encoded"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-lowercase-slug-urls-when-set-to-encoded/46036>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 19, 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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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-lowercase-slug-urls-when-set-to-encoded/46036/16 "2016-06-20T21:33:29Z")

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Ruby 2.4.0.preview 1 launched today with [unicode aware downcase/upcase](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/06/20/ruby-2-4-0-preview1-released/).

In the mean time, rails active support provides this.

If the code path isn’t critical, it can be added. Not sure if we must add tough 😄.

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