# UTF-8 slugs for categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/utf-8-slugs-for-categories/27353>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年四月8日 18:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/utf-8-slugs-for-categories/27353 "2015-04-08T18:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2015年四月8日 22:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/utf-8-slugs-for-categories/27353/2 "2015-04-08T22:20:23Z")

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Planned at some point see:

> [@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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