Unicode Slugs Guide: ASCII vs Non-ASCII URLs
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? --- The Three Approaches to Non-ASCII Slugs When a title contains non-ASCII characters, you have three options: Remove them — strip all non-ASCII characters and slug the remainder. Transliterate them — convert them to ASCII equivalents ( → , → , → ). Keep them (internationalized slugs) — use the original characters in the URL, encoded as necessary. Each has tradeoffs. ---…
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