diff --git a/app/Entities/SlugGenerator.php b/app/Entities/SlugGenerator.php
index 459a5264a..e8bc556ab 100644
--- a/app/Entities/SlugGenerator.php
+++ b/app/Entities/SlugGenerator.php
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <?php namespace BookStack\Entities;
 
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
+
 class SlugGenerator
 {
 
@@ -32,9 +34,7 @@ class SlugGenerator
      */
     protected function formatNameAsSlug(string $name): string
     {
-        $slug = preg_replace('/[\+\/\\\?\@\}\{\.\,\=\[\]\#\&\!\*\'\;\:\$\%]/', '', mb_strtolower($name));
-        $slug = preg_replace('/\s{2,}/', ' ', $slug);
-        $slug = str_replace(' ', '-', $slug);
+        $slug = Str::slug($name);
         if ($slug === "") {
             $slug = substr(md5(rand(1, 500)), 0, 5);
         }
diff --git a/tests/Entity/EntityTest.php b/tests/Entity/EntityTest.php
index d7e4ec61c..de1e025ad 100644
--- a/tests/Entity/EntityTest.php
+++ b/tests/Entity/EntityTest.php
@@ -273,15 +273,20 @@ class EntityTest extends BrowserKitTest
             ->seeInElement('#recently-updated-pages', $page->name);
     }
 
-    public function test_slug_multi_byte_lower_casing()
+    public function test_slug_multi_byte_url_safe()
     {
         $book = $this->newBook([
-            'name' => 'КНИГА'
+            'name' => 'информация'
         ]);
 
-        $this->assertEquals('книга', $book->slug);
-    }
+        $this->assertEquals('informatsiya', $book->slug);
 
+        $book = $this->newBook([
+            'name' => '¿Qué?'
+        ]);
+
+        $this->assertEquals('que', $book->slug);
+    }
 
     public function test_slug_format()
     {