https://vanityurls.link/en/tags/i18n/Recent content in I18n on vanityURLsHugoen-CAWed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:13 -0400https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/accents-idn-and-short-link-slugs/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/accents-idn-and-short-link-slugs/<p>Accents belong in people names, page copy, titles, and destination websites. They do not belong in vanityURLs short-link slugs.</p> <p>That sounds stricter than the modern web really is. Browsers can show internationalized domain names. URLs can carry UTF-8 characters. Search engines can crawl paths with accents. People share links in many languages every day.</p> <p>The problem is not whether the internet can represent accents. It can. The problem is whether a short-link slug remains easy to type, review, compare, log, and defend when the same visible word can have more than one technical representation.</p>