# Slugs error for persian language

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/slugs-error-for-persian-language/26757>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2015年三月25日 09:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slugs-error-for-persian-language/26757 "2015-03-25T09:57:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [2015年三月25日 14:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slugs-error-for-persian-language/26757/4 "2015-03-25T14:27:06Z")

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As elberet mentioned you can only use latin characters for slugs.  
Anyway, Discourse shouldn’t silently change the slug provided by the user. It should at least show an appropriate error message.

I guess if the following feature would be implemented, arabic slugs could work as well.

> [@Removing the concept of "slugs" for some languages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-concept-of-slugs-for-some-languages/26643):
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> Discourse is trying to shoehorn the concept of “pretty slugs” to non ascii char set based languages. It may be acceptable to do this transliteration in Norwegen or Turkish, but stuff gets really weird when you do it in Korean or Chinese or Arabic. When you look at alexa top 100 for say Egypt or China or any non-latin alphabet you never see this concept of a “slug” which is attempting to convert your alphabet to English. It is offensive and comical. Our default behavior, which is to “only keep …

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