# Published page URI & national characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Tags:** page-publishing\ **Created:** [September 22, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-uri-national-characters/279801 "2023-09-22T15:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-uri-national-characters/279801/10 "2023-09-23T07:40:49Z")
I’ve had a test run: - Set `default locale` to polski (or suomi) - Set `slug generation method` to ‘encoded’ - Enabled `enable page publishing` - Created topic with title ‘Jeśli nie sałata to nie żaba’ (or ‘Jäällä öljyä vanhassa Åbossa’) - Topic slug generated `/t/je%C5%9Bli-nie-sa%C5%82ata-to-nie-%C5%BCaba/758` (or `/t/j%C3%A4%C3%A4ll%C3%A4-%C3%B6ljy%C3%A4-vanhassa-%C3%A5bossa/759`) - Attempt to publish topic with the encoded slug `je%C5%9Bli-nie-sa%C5%82ata-to-nie-%C5%BCaba` as the URL - Can’t publish as URL contains invalid characters - Removing encoding allows page to be published Alternatively… > [@ClawdiaWolf](#): > > You can reproduce this far more easily. > > Just try to publish a page and add a % sign to the slug. It will immediately display the message about their being an invalid character. It doesn’t seem like encoded slugs are supported for page publishing. What’s expected here? I checked out both the Polish and Finnish government websites to see what their URLs are like, and they don’t encode theirs to account for this. I’ve also had a search, and I don’t think this has come up as an issue before, which may make this #Contribute > Feature request territory rather than a #Contribute > Bug if they’ve never been supported. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-uri-national-characters/279801)._