# Special characters in slug

**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/special-characters-in-slug/3503
**Category:** support
**Created:** [June 13, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/special-characters-in-slug/3503 "2016-06-13T09:12:56Z")
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### Author: ![juh2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/juh2/32/3980_2.png) [@juh2](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/juh2)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/special-characters-in-slug/3503/1 "2016-06-13T09:12:56Z")

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I create urls with date and slug like this:

post = “/:year/:month/:day/:slug”

In most posts there is no slug so it fallbacks to title. Now there are some slugs with special characters, mostly german umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and the sharp ß. I am not sure whether these urls are save in the internet. Can I somehow automatically convert them to ASCII characters?

I saw that if there is a period in the title the url is not found.  
Maybe this is due to this bug: [https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1885](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1885)