Text to Slug

A slug is the readable text used for a URL path segment, such as my-first-post. This tool generates a single segment; it does not create a domain, validate a complete URL, check uniqueness or publish a page.

Unicode mode retains international letters, digits and associated combining marks. ASCII mode folds common Latin accents and maps a small set of letters such as ß to ss and œ to oe, then retains only A–Z, a–z and 0–9. Other scripts are removed rather than transliterated; use Unicode mode to keep them.

Straight and curly apostrophes are removed, so John’s becomes johns. Other disallowed runs, including spaces, punctuation and emoji, separate words. Repeated separators collapse and leading/trailing separators are removed. Newlines are treated as word separators; the tool does not create a batch of slugs.

Unicode compatibility normalization (NFKC) is applied first, which can simplify full-width or compatibility characters. ASCII mode also decomposes accents and removes combining marks. Lowercase uses default Unicode mappings rather than locale-specific casing. This is a deterministic text transformation, not a translation service.

International characters may be represented with percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes in URLs. Both fields refer to the same slug; decoding the encoded form recovers the readable form. Many website editors handle encoding themselves, so use the form your destination expects and avoid double encoding.

No. The input limit is 20,000 UTF-16 text units; oversized input is preserved while conversion is unavailable. The tool does not truncate the slug, reserve a name, guarantee compatibility with every CMS or promise search rankings. Choose a concise, descriptive slug and check your website’s requirements.