Unicode Slugs Guide: Should Your URLs Contain Non-ASCII Characters?
Unicode URLs vs ASCII slugs: browser support, SEO implications, and when it's safe to use non-Latin characters in your URLs. With real examples.
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Unicode Slugs: Handle Accents, Emoji, and Non-ASCII Characters Most websites serve audiences in multiple languages. Many of those languages use characters outside the basic ASCII range: accented Latin letters, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and now emoji. This creates a slug generation problem: how do you create a URL from a title that contains characters your slug algorithm cannot keep verbatim? Transliteration: Converting Non-ASCII to ASCII Transliteration maps characters from one script to phonetic equivalents in another. For Latin-derived scripts with diacritics, this is straightforward: | Original | Transliterated | Notes | |----------|---------------|-------| | | | Accent removed | | | | Diaeresis removed | | | | Ring removed | | | | Umlaut simplified | | | | Cedilla…
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