# Sinhala Devanagari Sinhala slug for Unicode?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slug-for-unicode/70319
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slug-for-unicode/70319 "2017-09-19T00:03:19Z")
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### Author: ![xrav3nz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xrav3nz/32/76894_2.png) [@xrav3nz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xrav3nz)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slug-for-unicode/70319/5 "2017-09-19T00:41:38Z")

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There is a site setting for this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/2/624e25cbfe8442244b91b8686c18b062b243a73d.png)

If you set it to `encoded`, slugs will contain non-ASCII characters.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/1/21606f51485069cf6942b553ea927b817256cb0c.png)

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**Note**

There was (is?) a infinite-redirect problem due to having non-ASCII characters in the topic slug. I don’t think this has been fixed yet.

> [@Removing the concept of "slugs" for some languages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-concept-of-slugs-for-some-languages/26643/24):
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> If a topic has the test งಠಠง and slug generation method is “encoded” the slug is test-งಠಠง. This is a nasty problem cause the actual UI will cause a fight with the browser. The browser sends over the slug as test-%E0%B8%87%E0%B2%A0%E0%B2%A0%E0%B8%87 and we perform no decoding on our side which leads to an infinite redirect in the topic page, if you hit reload. It feels to me like “encoded” should be always percent encoded.

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