# About special characters in taxonomy and documentation
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/about-special-characters-in-taxonomy-and-documentation/7230
**Category:** support
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/about-special-characters-in-taxonomy-and-documentation/7230 "2017-06-28T03:51:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@aris](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/aris)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/about-special-characters-in-taxonomy-and-documentation/7230/1 "2017-06-28T03:51:37Z")
Hello,
In the process od learning to use Hugo I had a problem with accentued letters in tags and categories slugs (e.g. “cinéma” in french), and found the solution in a tread in this forum: we have just to set-up `RemovePathAccents = false` in the `config.toml` file.
> [@Special characters in taxonomy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/special-characters-in-taxonomy/1247):
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> Hello ! I’m new to Hugo and I’m playing with it to see if it could replace my [actual WordPress blog](http://voiretmanger.fr) . I managed to get all posts in Hugo, the same way they are on my blog (with the same URL, which is nice), but I have some problems. One of which involves taxonomies : as I’m writing in French, I need to support special characters, like é or à. Without tweaking anything, Hugo just uses these characters in URL (for instance, http://blog.com/tags/entrée). What I’d like is the same behavior than W…
Easy solution to a commun problem for french, italian or spanish sites, for exemple… but any mention of `RemovePathAccents` is (still) missing in the official documentation.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/about-special-characters-in-taxonomy-and-documentation/7230/2 "2019-08-22T16:21:39Z")
Reviving this thread, as @aris recently brought this up at [Accents replacement with natural letter](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/accents-replacement-with-natural-letter/20185/11).
I was surprised to see it undocumented; I haven’t used it, but I’ve seen it discussed often enough to presume.
Anyhow, I don’t know the implications of what it does, so I’d like to use this thread to get feedback from someone with a clue, so we can move forward with documenting this config option.
The relevant docs issue is at [https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/issues/94](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/issues/94).