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What's the technical term for a computer-friendly name of an entity: e.g. "Guns N' Roses" becomes guns_n_roses. This has nothing to to with escaping or sanitizing input, but with aesthetics - looking good in an url.

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Title: Computer-friendly name for entity
Body: What's the technical term for a compu....
???: computer-friendly-name-for-entity

There is a technical term, but I can't remember which. It's a noun, fairly short and (ahem) memorable.

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Yuval A
I'm looking for a noun.
Michiel de Mare
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The canonical representation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization

The normalized name?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/normalize

GrahamS
No, there is a (I think) one word term, fairly informal sounding.
Michiel de Mare
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Escaped? Machine-readable? Cooked?

Tyler McHenry
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Could use 'Alias'?

JamesM
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Wordpress calls it a 'slug'

davr
Yes! That's it! I love you!
Michiel de Mare