# The dot «.» symbol is stripped from a category slug

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-dot-symbol-is-stripped-from-a-category-slug/42384>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016 年4 月 11 日 11:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-dot-symbol-is-stripped-from-a-category-slug/42384 "2016-04-11T11:00:08Z")\
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作者： ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
发布日期： [2016 年4 月 11 日 18:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-dot-symbol-is-stripped-from-a-category-slug/42384/3 "2016-04-11T18:10:47Z")

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If you look at the modal, it reads

Category Slug

(Optional) dashed-words for url

Not a problem as long as someone knows what format slugs have.  
Not a problem as long as someone knows what is and isn’t a word.

It seems seeing “dashed-words” would be clue enough.  
And coders would understand `[-a-z]+`

But I can’t think of any way things could be made more clear so that everyone would understand what it does.

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