testing friendly urls - Jönköping

This is a test

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Resulting URL slug:
testing-friendly-urls-j-nk-ping

Looks bad :(

bjrn

Prettier friendly URLs would be nice. Perhaps Url($Mixed) in library/core/class.format.php could be changed. Either changing the preg_replace line, or adding before it a str_replace with an array containing characters like "ö", and their replacements.

Something like this (but with more complete arrays obviously)

$bad = array("å", "ä", "á", "à", "ă", "â", "ö", "ø", "ó", "ò", "ŏ", "ô");
$good = array("a", "a", "a", "a", "a", "a", "o", "o", "o", "o", "o", "o");
$Mixed = str_replace($bad, $good, $Mixed);

That way you'd get .../testing-friendly-urls-jonkoping which would look a lot friendlier.


PHP has a function called iconv, specifically for converting between different character encodings, but it looks like you can't really rely on it working on all systems, so str_replace/strtr/preg_replace/etc would probably be safer.

S

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/9756/

bjrn

Hah. And I found another discussion about this issue as well: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/11334/non-url-friendly-characters-conversion-problem