# If there any chance to patch #category mentions to use not category SLUG but non-English category name on non-engl forums

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**Created:** [September 14, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-there-any-chance-to-patch-category-mentions-to-use-not-category-slug-but-non-english-category-name-on-non-engl-forums/50138 "2016-09-14T12:45:38Z")\
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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:** [September 14, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-there-any-chance-to-patch-category-mentions-to-use-not-category-slug-but-non-english-category-name-on-non-engl-forums/50138/2 "2016-09-14T13:12:57Z")

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The category slug doesn’t accept the Cyrillic characters? I think it’s a easier change to try to add, optional, UTF 8 category slugs.

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