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Text to Slug Converter

Convert any text into a clean, URL-safe slug.

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What is Text → Slug?

The Text to Slug converter turns a title or arbitrary string into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug — transliterating accented characters, stripping punctuation and collapsing whitespace in one step.

How it works

Slugification normalizes Unicode with NFD and strips combining diacritical marks (so 'café' → 'cafe', 'naïve' → 'naive'), lowercases, then replaces every non-alphanumeric run with the chosen separator. Optional max-length truncation cuts at a word boundary rather than mid-word.

  1. Paste a title. Any text works — including accented characters and punctuation, e.g. 'Hello, World! — Café & Crème'.
  2. Choose separator and length. Hyphen (default), underscore, or no separator. Set a max length to truncate at a word boundary.
  3. Copy the slug. The live URL preview shows how the slug will look in context. Copy it with one click.

Examples

Blog URL slug

'My Awesome Post Title!' becomes 'my-awesome-post-title' for a clean URL.

Accented characters

'Café au Lait' becomes 'cafe-au-lait' via Unicode transliteration — no hardcoded character map needed.

Common mistakes

Expecting non-Latin scripts to transliterate

Cyrillic, Arabic or CJK characters are stripped rather than transliterated — transliteration only covers accented Latin characters.

Mid-word truncation

Max-length truncation stops at a word boundary so you never get a half-finished word in your slug.

Alternatives

Text Case Converter

For readable case conversions instead of URL-safe slugs.

Find and Replace

For manual cleanups of special characters.

Frequently asked questions

Does it handle accented characters?

Yes — via Unicode NFD normalization plus diacritic stripping, so 'café', 'naïve' and 'São Paulo' convert to cafe, naive and sao-paulo.

Can I change the separator?

Yes — hyphen (default), underscore, or no separator at all, e.g. my-post, my_post or mypost.

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