# Turkish character problem in title
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526 "2021-05-15T22:30:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/1 "2021-05-15T22:30:30Z")
hi,
I have a problem as below;
site language is Turkish.
when i paste a word as a title like **GIDA** it shown as **gida**. But it must be **gıda**. Because GIDA has **I** not **İ**.
Any idea please.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/2 "2021-05-15T23:10:37Z")
This happens when the title has only uppercase letters, the site setting `title_prettify` is enabled and the site setting `allow_uppercase_posts` is disabled.
Ruby has an optional parameter for [`String#downcase`](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/String.html#method-i-downcase) that we could use when the default locale is Turkish, but I’m really on the fence here. What if someone uses “CIA BLA BLA” as topic title on a Turkish forum?
So, here are some solutions for you:
- Don’t use all uppercase letters in titles: “GIDA BLA BLA bla” would works fine!
- Or enable the `allow_uppercase_posts` site setting
- Or disable the `title_prettify` site setting
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### Author:  [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/3 "2021-05-15T23:20:22Z")
thank you.
So there is no solution until you mentioned below is live. Right?
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Ruby has an optional parameter for [`String#downcase`](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/String.html#method-i-downcase) that we could use when the default locale
> [@gerhard](#):
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> What if someone uses “CIA BLA BLA” as topic title on a Turkish forum?
it is just a example 🙂
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Don’t use all uppercase letters in titles
i will use discourse as a wiki for a project, only way is coping texts from somewhere and all titles are uppercase ☹
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Or enable the `allow_uppercase_posts` site setting
this may be so ugly ☹
> [@gerhard](#):
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> disable the `title_prettify` site setting
but i need this 🙂
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/4 "2021-05-18T02:39:17Z")
> [@ufukayyildiz](#):
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> but i need this
I am going to change this to #Contribute > Feature
The feature request here is to support `title_prettify` when a site’s locale is set to Turkish.
I think this is a reasonable request as long as you can help us set out where the rules in core diverge for cases where the locale of the site is Turkish.
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### Author:  [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/5 "2021-05-18T07:48:38Z")
Thank you.
It is a pleasure for me.
I can share a list with you.
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### Author:  [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/6 "2021-05-18T22:35:09Z")
Hi,
I prepared a list. If it is not enough, i can do more. thank you.
[title\_prettify\_turkish - Sheet1.pdf](https://meta.discourse.org/uploads/short-url/p71yyRxj3h0EjfUxUB8kLXGfcXy.pdf) (52.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/7 "2021-05-18T23:21:08Z")
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Ruby has an optional parameter for [`String#downcase`](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/String.html#method-i-downcase) that we could use when the default locale is Turkish, but I’m really on the fence here. What if someone uses “CIA BLA BLA” as topic title on a Turkish forum?
I say if `SiteSetting.default_locale` is set to `tr_TR` it makes sense to use `:turkic` versions of `downcase` / `capitalize` etc in `TextCleaner`
Seems like the right thing to do. I guess if we want to provide an escape hatch we could make a hidden site setting to disable this on Turkish sites that use English titles.
Do you want to take this @gerhard ?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/9 "2021-05-21T13:57:12Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13115](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13115)
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### Author:  [@ufukayyildiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ufukayyildiz)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/10 "2021-05-24T17:21:20Z")
Problem solved. Thanks again 😌
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turkish-character-problem-in-title/190526/11 "2021-05-24T20:35:16Z")