Search engine friendly URL's to work with Scandinavian letters?

Mania

I'm having a small problem.

I would like to see the finnish letter "ä" transformed into an "a" and the finnish letter "ö" transformed into an "o" in the URL of my forum posts. Now it just cuts those letters off and the URL looks a bit weird if those letters are used (which is quite often).

For example I have a discussion called "Onko nettideittailu vieläkään hyväksyttävää nykypäivänä?" which shows in the URL as "/onko-nettideittailu-vielkn-hyvksyttv-nykypivn/". Here's the live example (hope you see all the letters correctly): http://otamut.org/keskustelu/discussion/5/onko-nettideittailu-vielkn-hyvksyttv-nykypivn/

How could I fix this?

Thomas Heath

Well spotted, Mania! Applies to Swedish as well.

ZachariasDk

And while we're at it, danish too. (æøå)

Rainbow

Some function like thisone maybe?
function unaccent($text) { $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES); foreach ($trans as $literal =>$entity) { if (ord($literal)>=192) { $replace[]=substr($entity,1,1); $search[]=$literal; } } return str_replace($search, $replace, $text); }

Thomas Heath

I think this list cover the Scandinavian languages? Or am I missing somewhing? å = a ä = a ö = o æ = a ø = o

Rainbow

Think more global please. What about other languages with special characters?

Mark

Here is the current function used to encode the url titles (found in library/framework/framework.functions.php):

function CleanupString($InString) { $Code = explode(',', '<,>,&#039;,&,",À,Á,Â,Ã,Ä,&Auml;,Å,Ā,Ą,Ă,Æ,Ç,Ć,Č,Ĉ,Ċ,Ď,Đ,Ð,È,É,Ê,Ë,Ē,Ę,Ě,Ĕ,Ė,Ĝ,Ğ,Ġ,Ģ,Ĥ,Ħ,Ì,Í,Î,Ï,Ī,Ĩ,Ĭ,Į,İ,IJ,Ĵ,Ķ,Ł,Ľ,Ĺ,Ļ,Ŀ,Ñ,Ń,Ň,Ņ,Ŋ,Ò,Ó,Ô,Õ,Ö,&Ouml;,Ø,Ō,Ő,Ŏ,Œ,Ŕ,Ř,Ŗ,Ś,Š,Ş,Ŝ,Ș,Ť,Ţ,Ŧ,Ț,Ù,Ú,Û,Ü,Ū,&Uuml;,Ů,Ű,Ŭ,Ũ,Ų,Ŵ,Ý,Ŷ,Ÿ,Ź,Ž,Ż,Þ,Þ,à,á,â,ã,ä,&auml;,å,ā,ą,ă,æ,ç,ć,č,ĉ,ċ,ď,đ,ð,è,é,ê,ë,ē,ę,ě,ĕ,ė,ƒ,ĝ,ğ,ġ,ģ,ĥ,ħ,ì,í,î,ï,ī,ĩ,ĭ,į,ı,ij,ĵ,ķ,ĸ,ł,ľ,ĺ,ļ,ŀ,ñ,ń,ň,ņ,ʼn,ŋ,ò,ó,ô,õ,ö,&ouml;,ø,ō,ő,ŏ,œ,ŕ,ř,ŗ,š,ù,ú,û,ü,ū,&uuml;,ů,ű,ŭ,ũ,ų,ŵ,ý,ÿ,ŷ,ž,ż,ź,þ,ß,ſ,А,Б,В,Г,Д,Е,Ё,Ж,З,И,Й,К,Л,М,Н,О,П,Р,С,Т,У,Ф,Х,Ц,Ч,Ш,Щ,Ъ,Ы,Э,Ю,Я,а,б,в,г,д,е,ё,ж,з,и,й,к,л,м,н,о,п,р,с,т,у,ф,х,ц,ч,ш,щ,ъ,ы,э,ю,я'); $Translation = explode(',', ',,,,,A,A,A,A,Ae,A,A,A,A,A,Ae,C,C,C,C,C,D,D,D,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,E,G,G,G,G,H,H,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,IJ,J,K,K,K,K,K,K,N,N,N,N,N,O,O,O,O,Oe,Oe,O,O,O,O,OE,R,R,R,S,S,S,S,S,T,T,T,T,U,U,U,Ue,U,Ue,U,U,U,U,U,W,Y,Y,Y,Z,Z,Z,T,T,a,a,a,a,ae,ae,a,a,a,a,ae,c,c,c,c,c,d,d,d,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,f,g,g,g,g,h,h,i,i,i,i,i,i,i,i,i,ij,j,k,k,l,l,l,l,l,n,n,n,n,n,n,o,o,o,o,oe,oe,o,o,o,o,oe,r,r,r,s,u,u,u,ue,u,ue,u,u,u,u,u,w,y,y,y,z,z,z,t,ss,ss,A,B,V,G,D,E,YO,ZH,Z,I,Y,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,F,H,C,CH,SH,SCH,Y,Y,E,YU,YA,a,b,v,g,d,e,yo,zh,z,i,y,k,l,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,u,f,h,c,ch,sh,sch,y,y,e,yu,ya'); $sReturn = $InString; $sReturn = str_replace($Code, $Translation, $sReturn); $sReturn = urldecode($sReturn); $sReturn = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9 ]/', '', $sReturn); $sReturn = str_replace(' ', '-', $sReturn); return strtolower(str_replace('--', '-', $sReturn)); }

Toivo

its works on the brute force. maybe something like .... lussumo tries to create appropriate url. if it fails then gives you an option to name it. (there will be always some missing characters) wordpress has "post slug"

Rainbow

Impressive list of characters :)

Mania

Hmm.. so what to do?

If I understand correctly that function replaces some of the special characters into more common characters. And I spotted my letters there so it should work?

Mark

Yep, it should work...

I'm not great with the inner workings of character encodings, but I know that there are a few other members on here who are - I'm hoping one or two of them will join in on the discussion...

Max_B

mania wrote:
If I understand correctly that function replaces some of the special characters into more common characters. And I spotted my letters there so it should work?

…if you add the corresponding "flat" char at the same place in the translation array.