# Formatting and accents in urls

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-and-accents-in-urls/215734>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 23, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-and-accents-in-urls/215734 "2022-01-23T19:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steven/32/187890_2.png) [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-and-accents-in-urls/215734/2 "2022-01-23T20:13:27Z")

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I had trouble understanding the issue, but copy-pasting the direct link helped me get it.

I think it’s not discourse’s fault tho, you should avoid special characters in category slugs

Keep the Dívidas category name, but use `dividas` as a category slug

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/b/3bd34045c34c483e3924cf26ae71f26bb006fbab.png)

Other wise, when the category slug is saved with the accent, it will be changed right away: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/6/86a6add15f119bd40aa6e8a54345244baa3fbd65.png)

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