# 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, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-lowercase-slug-urls-when-set-to-encoded/46036/21 "2016-06-20T21:42:38Z")

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> [@Idan](#):
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> Rails Active Support

Yes, as said here:

> [@Falco](#):
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> In the mean time, rails active support provides this.

I have used this in a PR to support auto lowercase in the pretty text discourse lib on non-english forums.

I need to extend that to make the site setting `allow uppercase posts` work as expected on non-english forums too, so I can take a look on the slug generation for you, if you don’t PR that before me 😄.

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