Answers.Body: <p>There is technically nothing wrong with using them in a URI since they are valid URI characters.  Even multi-byte characters (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.) are valid in the URI (i.e. domain.com/漢字漢字).</p>
  
  <p>However, some people have requested that they not be allowed in the slug, so for the upcoming 2.2 release, we've added a config setting where you can disable the behavior and multi-byte characters are stripped and high-ASCII characters like ó are swapped with their low-ASCII counterparts (o).</p>
  
  <p>I can't speak to any other non-technical reasons why they might not want to be used (SEO, etc.).</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm working on a site with both english and spanish locales. Crafts localization features have been awesome so far, and I've been embracing Craft's ability to easily localize URLs.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I have a section on conservation, the english url would be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>www.mysite.com/conservation
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the spanish one would be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>www.mysite.com/es/conservación
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I going to run into any technical issues by allowing accented characters in my urls?</p>
  
Tags: <localization><url>
Title: Is there any downside to using localized characters in urls?
ThreadText: # Is there any downside to using localized characters in urls?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-28)
  
  I'm working on a site with both english and spanish locales. Crafts localization features have been awesome so far, and I've been embracing Craft's ability to easily localize URLs.
  
  For example, if I have a section on conservation, the english url would be:
  
  ```
  www.mysite.com/conservation
  
  ```
  
  And the spanish one would be:
  
  ```
  www.mysite.com/es/conservación
  
  ```
  
  Am I going to run into any technical issues by allowing accented characters in my urls?
  
  **Tags:** localization, url
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-28. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  There is technically nothing wrong with using them in a URI since they are valid URI characters. Even multi-byte characters (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.) are valid in the URI (i.e. domain.com/漢字漢字).
  
  However, some people have requested that they not be allowed in the slug, so for the upcoming 2.2 release, we've added a config setting where you can disable the behavior and multi-byte characters are stripped and high-ASCII characters like ó are swapped with their low-ASCII counterparts (o).
  
  I can't speak to any other non-technical reasons why they might not want to be used (SEO, etc.).
  
  
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