# Django Slugify Error

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**Category:** Forms & APIs\
**Created:** [January 15, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-slugify-error/6153 "2021-01-15T13:36:00Z")\
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I checked out the slugify function in django-autoslug - same thing happens.

I know just enough about Unicode to know that lower-case i with dot is a different character than lower-case i without dot, and that the two are not the same.

From the [slugify function](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/utils/#django.utils.text.slugify) docs, it does say that any characters that don’t map to ascii characters are removed. This appears to be the case here - there is no ascii mapping for the lower-case i without dot, and so it’s dropped.

I don’t believe there is a valid work-around for this without doing your own character substitution on the string before using slugify.

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