blog: Fixing Up Japanese Language Tags (draft)

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+title: "Fixing Up Japanese Language Tags"
+date: 2025-01-07T13:33:20-08:00
+draft: true
+tags:
+  - Meta
+  - Hugo
+  - japanese
+---
+
+Two years ago, I took a trip to Japan with Tess. I wrote up my experiences on
+that trip in various posts, and shared several photos.
+
+Feeling perhaps overly-confident in my ability to read Japanese and my website
+engine's ability to handle non-ASCII content, I tagged many of those pages with
+Japanese language tags:
+[日本]({{< ref "/tags/japan" >}}),
+[日本語]({{< ref "/tags/japanese" >}}),
+[東京]({{< ref "/tags/japan-tokyo" >}}),
+[京都]({{< ref "/tags/japan-kyoto" >}}).
+
+This led to some difficult URLs because of how Hugo rendered the Japanese
+language tags names into ASCII when generating file paths.
+
+It's always bothered me a bit to have paths that look like this, so I went
+through today and updated those tags to have ASCII slugs, and Japanese titles. I
+went a step further