The kind of excerpt-like thing you see on the end of many many modern URLs. "rare-white-moose-captured-on-film-in-sweden" in this one: www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40918494/rare-white-moose-captured-on-film-in-sweden

It's machine-produced and surprisingly good at revealing accidental/unintentional/evil duplicates, considering how cheap it is.

slug is a term leftover from newspapers. You most commonly see slugs today where a title might be "Did you know this mushroom is off the hook?" and the URL is turned in to a "slug" like

    example.com/mushroom-off-the-hook/

Here is an example of the Django framework's "slugify" https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/te...

A simpler representation of some text, using only lowercase letters, numbers and dashes for spaces. Removes any unsafe or "invisible" characters, accents, and sometimes simple words. Often used in URLs.

TEXT: Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

SLUG: fake-whatsapp-update-from-whatsapp-inc-with-unicode-whitespace-1m-downloads

All names get reduced using Unicode normalization.

Recently, thousands of users were duped into installing "АdВIосk РIuѕ" in Chrome. Every one of those letters is Unicode normalized.

(Hint: it's not just the I's masquerading as l's.)

Fair enough. I'm a little surprised that those hold up under NFK normalization. А sure as heck seems compatible with A.