Non-URL-friendly characters conversion problem

Tudor

In Vanilla 2 I've noticed all the non-URL-friendly characters are either replaced with dashes or discarded completely. As a consequence the URLs are totally meaningless if you happen to write in a language other than English. I don't think it's a feature, so I suppose it's a bug?

Vanilla 1 did a great job converting characters for "friendly URLs": for example an "ü" becomes "u", "ø" becomes "o" and so on.

Linc

File an issue on GitHub Not sure it'll make it for the first release, but it'd at least be good to note for later.

TiGR

The fix is plain simple:

add
$Mixed = utf8_decode(str_replace(self::$Code, self::$Translation, $Mixed));
after
} else {
in library/core/class.format.php, function Url.

P.S: Have not tried pulling this, since I've got no response for my pulls.

Tudor

@TiGR - thank you, it's working.
And also related to this subject: in the same PHP file the $Code and $Translation arrays should be updated to include some of the other international characters. In my installation I added ș/Ș and ț/Ț which are used in Romanian language.

Tim

@Todd has been working on a new version of Format::Url() that will handle these cases much better.