# 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:** ![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:** [January 24, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-and-accents-in-urls/215734/6 "2022-01-24T00:33:57Z")

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You will need to:

1. Change the site setting `slug generation method` to `encoded`

2. Refresh the page

3. Go and edit the problematic category, change the slug to an ascii one

4. Head back and revert the site setting change

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