diff --git a/config/cfgroot/header.pl b/config/cfgroot/header.pl
index df7b0f009..7c1935087 100644
--- a/config/cfgroot/header.pl
+++ b/config/cfgroot/header.pl
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use File::Basename;
 use HTML::Entities();
 use Socket;
 use Time::Local;
+use Unicode::Normalize;
 
 our %color = ();
 &General::readhash("/srv/web/ipfire/html/themes/ipfire/include/colors.txt", \%color);
@@ -363,6 +364,18 @@ sub escape($) {
 	return HTML::Entities::encode_entities($s);
 }
 
+sub normalize($) {
+	my $s = shift;
+
+	# Remove any special characters
+	$s = &Unicode::Normalize::NFKD($s);
+
+	# Remove any whitespace and replace with dash
+	$s =~ s/\s+/\-/g;
+
+	return $s;
+}
+
 sub cleanhtml {
 	my $outstring =$_[0];
 	$outstring =~ tr/,/ / if not defined $_[1] or $_[1] ne 'y';