# Friendly\_id questions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-id-questions/177798>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 23, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-id-questions/177798 "2009-10-23T21:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![TuteC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@TuteC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/TuteC)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-id-questions/177798/1 "2009-10-23T21:40:54Z")

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Hi everyone. I’m starting a project, and I’m now using friendly\_id  
plugin to fetch “estudios”. I’ve got two questions:

1. It acts weird with accented i. If I have an estudio “ÁÉÍÓÚ”, it  
shows:  
[http://localhost:3000/estudios/áéíóú](http://localhost:3000/estudios/%C3%A1%C3%A9%C3%AD%C3%B3%C3%BA) Why isn’t it working?

2. Is there a way to have custom slugs? Could an “estudio” edit it’s  
own slug,  
instead of being only generated from it’s name?

Thank you in advance;

Eugenio.