# Probleem met een nieuw aangemaakte categorie vanwege accentteken in categorienaam

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [17 november 2020 om 15:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370 "2020-11-17T15:46:27Z")
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### Author: ![aminerj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aminerj/32/198681_2.png) [@aminerj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aminerj)
#### Post date: [17 november 2020 om 15:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370/1 "2020-11-17T15:46:27Z")

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Hi all,

I am having trouble with newly created category. I don’t know if the problem came from the **large image I set as a background** or the name of the category (I used a french accent **Matériel** in the name).

Now, the page of the category just keeps loading indefinitely. I can’t change the name of delete the category so I can create another one.

Please, any tips ? 🥺

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### Author: ![aminerj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aminerj/32/198681_2.png) [@aminerj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aminerj)
#### Post date: [17 november 2020 om 16:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370/2 "2020-11-17T16:28:16Z")

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Hi,

I am going to answer myself (if this can help anyone in the future). The problem was indeed the weird accented name I gave to my category. The category just wont show so I can edit the name.

What I finally did is to update the category using the API as follow:

1. I created an API key in the administration page for my self (admin user)
2. went to the API endpoint for my forum and executed a curl put to update the category name (see here [API endpoing](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Categories/paths/~1categories~1%7Bid%7D/put)
3. Now my category page loads as expected 👍

Cheers 🎉

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 november 2020 om 23:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370/3 "2020-11-18T23:35:13Z")

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Hmm, can we repro this @tshenry?

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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [18 november 2020 om 23:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-a-newly-created-category-due-to-accent-character-in-category-name/170370/4 "2020-11-18T23:43:58Z")

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I _think_ if I’m following all of the breadcrumbs correctly, a fix is in the works!

The issue was first reported here:

[Allow or not accented characters in category slug according to "slug generation method" setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-or-not-accented-characters-in-category-slug-according-to-slug-generation-method-setting/167412)

Then it looks like @Falco started working on a fix at the end of this duplicate topic:

[Category slug containing Unicode characters results in redirect loop](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-slug-containing-unicode-characters-results-in-redirect-loop/169788)

That was then superseded by this pending PR:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11277](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11277)

So it should be fixed soon from what I can tell.