For generated pretty URLs configured in the UI (as opposed to those defined manually in a control file or a source document), Fluid Topics allows spaces and special characters when adding static text and metadata values.
However, with the exception of underscores, periods, tildes and forward slashes, Fluid Topics normalizes all special characters as follows:
- Fluid Topics transforms special characters such as spaces into hyphens in the rendered pretty URL.
- Fluid Topics transforms characters with accents entered as static text or in a metadata value into characters without accents in the rendered pretty URL.
Normalizing URLs is Fluid Topic's default behavior. It is possible to change this behavior by clearing a checkbox in the Normalization section of the Pretty URL administration interface.
Clearing the Normalize URLs checkbox invalidates existing Pretty URLs.