Slug Generator

A slug generator turns a title or phrase into a lowercase, hyphen-separated ASCII path segment. The output is useful for draft URLs, CMS slug fields, simple filenames, and stable human-readable identifiers.

This implementation favors a narrow ASCII result. It normalizes compatible Unicode forms, removes a specific range of combining accent marks, discards characters outside a–z and 0–9, replaces runs of discarded characters with hyphens, and trims outside hyphens.

Readable slugs are easier to scan, type, copy, and manage than raw titles containing spaces and punctuation. Automatic conversion also keeps separators and capitalization consistent.

• Create draft paths from article or product titles.
• Standardize lowercase hyphenated identifiers.
• Remove common accents and punctuation automatically.
• Clean repeated or leading separators.

First, Unicode NFKD compatibility normalization decomposes many accented characters and compatibility forms. Combining marks from U+0300 through U+036F are removed. The result is lowercased, every run outside ASCII letters and digits becomes one hyphen, and hyphens at both ends are deleted.

This is not full transliteration. Some Latin letters do not decompose into an ASCII base, and scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, or Devanagari are removed rather than converted to pronunciations. Different titles can therefore produce the same slug or even an empty result.

The result contains only lowercase ASCII letters, digits, and internal hyphens. It is a path segment, not a complete URL: it has no protocol, domain, query string, or percent encoding.

A clean format does not make a slug unique, permanent, or automatically optimized for search. A CMS may add a suffix when a slug already exists. Changing a published path can break links unless the site creates an appropriate redirect.

Stable descriptive paths help people recognize pages and help teams manage content. The best slug is usually concise and durable, but the tool cannot know which words are essential or whether a route conflicts with an existing page.

Slug generation is a sequence of normalization and replacement operations. There is no dictionary, stop-word list, transliteration service, or uniqueness lookup.

NFKD normalize → remove U+0300–U+036F marks → lowercase → non-ASCII runs to “-” → trim hyphens

NFKD

Unicode compatibility decomposition used before filtering.

Slug

The final ASCII path-segment text.

Slug Generator produces predictable ASCII slugs for common titles. Check uniqueness, meaning, and non-English loss before using the result in a permanent published URL.