https://thottingal.in/categories/internationalization/Recent content in Internationalization on Santhosh ThottingalHugo -- 0.154.0en2026 Santhosh Thottingal. All rights reserved.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:00:00 +0530https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/09/18/slug-generators-and-vowels-signs/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:00:00 +0530https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/09/18/slug-generators-and-vowels-signs/<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> Most slug libraries only allow <code>\p{L}</code> (letters), <code>\p{N}</code> (numbers), and <code>\p{S}</code> (symbols). In Indic scripts like Malayalam, vowels are often <em>combining marks</em> (<code>\p{M}</code>), not letters. The fix is simple: add <code>\p{M}</code> to your allowed character class. I’ll show you exactly how.</p> <hr> <p>I recently fixed this <a href="https://github.com/usememos/memos/pull/6051">memos PR #6051</a>. The bug was simple but devastating: Malayalam tags like <code>#കവിത</code> were being truncated to <code>#കവ</code>. The last two characters — <code>ി</code> (vowel sign I) and <code>ത</code> — were rendered outside tag.</p>