diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 92db0d1..330f690 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rusqlite",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "unidecode",
  "uuid 1.3.0",
 ]
 
@@ -2397,6 +2398,12 @@ version = "0.1.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c0edd1e5b14653f783770bce4a4dabb4a5108a5370a5f5d8cfe8710c361f6c8b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unidecode"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "402bb19d8e03f1d1a7450e2bd613980869438e0666331be3e073089124aa1adc"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "universal-hash"
 version = "0.5.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 87bc987..2ce9183 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ rusqlite = {version = "0.28.0", features=["bundled", "chrono"]}
 
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 mongodb = "2.3.1"
+unidecode = "0.3.0"
diff --git a/src/commons.rs b/src/commons.rs
index 6e86091..376bf6f 100644
--- a/src/commons.rs
+++ b/src/commons.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,26 @@
 use clap::Parser;
 use r2d2::Pool;
 use r2d2_sqlite::SqliteConnectionManager;
+use regex::Regex;
+use unidecode::unidecode;
+
+pub trait NormalizeName {
+    fn normalize_name(&self) -> String;
+}
+
+impl NormalizeName for String {
+
+    fn normalize_name(&self) -> String {
+        let space_re = Regex::new(r"[\s_]+").unwrap();
+        let remove_re = Regex::new(r"[^a-z0-9_]").unwrap();
+
+        let mut str = unidecode(self);
+        str = space_re.replace_all(&str, "_").to_string();
+
+        remove_re.replace_all(&str, "").to_string().to_lowercase()
+    }
+
+}
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
 pub struct Arguments {
@@ -19,12 +39,10 @@ pub struct Arguments {
 }
 
 impl Arguments {
-
     pub fn parse_args() -> Arguments {
         let args = Arguments::parse();
         args
     }
-
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
diff --git a/static/modules/md.js b/static/modules/md.js
index ea27dec..f8fcae6 100644
--- a/static/modules/md.js
+++ b/static/modules/md.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { saveSelection, loadSelection } from "./caret.js";
+import { normalizePagename } from "./tools.js";
 
 function setEditable() {
     let editModeButton = document.getElementById('editModeButton');
diff --git a/static/modules/tools.js b/static/modules/tools.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4df069e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/modules/tools.js
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+function normalizeName(pagename) {
+    return str.normalize("NFKD").replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, "").toLowerCase().replace(/œ/g, "oe").replace(/æ/g, "ae").replace(/\s+/g, "_").replace(/[^a-z0-9_]/g, "").replace(/_+/g, "_");
+}
+
+export { normalizeName };
\ No newline at end of file