# Published page URI & national characters?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-uri-national-characters/279801>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![ClawdiaWolf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clawdiawolf/32/262518_2.png) [@ClawdiaWolf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ClawdiaWolf)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-uri-national-characters/279801/12 "2023-09-23T07:54:35Z")

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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.

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