# Topics with period at end of abbreviations don't keep the period

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-with-period-at-end-of-abbreviations-dont-keep-the-period/25463>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 20, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-with-period-at-end-of-abbreviations-dont-keep-the-period/25463 "2015-02-20T21:35:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-with-period-at-end-of-abbreviations-dont-keep-the-period/25463/5 "2015-02-20T23:16:50Z")

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If you want to disable this, turn off the `title_prettify` setting.

Note that this will also turn off other features, such as deduplicating exclamation marks and question marks, downcasing all-uppercase titles, capitalizing the first letter of the title,

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/lib/text_cleaner.rb#L8-L17>

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