URI Titles for Non-English Languages

  • ala_747

    (@ala_747)


    22 years ago

    This plugin clean your titles (post slugs) sanitizing –not deleting– non-english characters. E.g. before “á”, after “a”; before “ç”, after “c”; before “ñ”, after “n”.
    Just download, unzip, upload to wp-content/plugins/, login and activate it… that’s all, folks!
    The plugin support characters of many languages, like: spanish, catalan, gallego, french, portuguese, dutch, german, etc.
    Please, let me know about your use of it or any improvement you do 🙂

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  • thewalrus

    (@thewalrus)

    22 years ago

    Great idea, but it doesn’t seem to work work with Umlauts: ä ö ü will simply be deleted and not shown as a o u, as I hoped 😉

    romulus

    (@romulus)

    22 years ago

    @thewalrus: for your info: its working for me with umlauts!

    Thread Starter ala_747

    (@ala_747)

    22 years ago

    thewalrus: I don’t know what can be wrong, but it’s working for me too (a little demo for you 🙂 )
    Are you using WP 1.2 Final (Mingus)? I couldn’t see your WP version nowhere…

    thewalrus

    (@thewalrus)

    22 years ago

    Hmm. That’s strange.
    I’m using WP 1.2 Final, the plugin is activated and no other plugin is used. So it should work. But it doesn’t 🙁

    thewalrus

    (@thewalrus)

    22 years ago

    I’m soooo stupid.
    I found out what’s wrong. I didn’t know that the plugin will only “clean” new titles. I’ve written a new entry with an umlaut and it works well. So sorry for my “complaint” 😉

    Thread Starter ala_747

    (@ala_747)

    22 years ago

    No prob 🙂
    If you want to sanitize your old titles too you can go to edit each post, delete the post slug and submit the changes. The plugin will write the post slug again but respecting the non-english chars.
    Anyway, I don’t recommend that if you have your pages indexed by Google or other SE because you will loose your old indexed URIs.

    marvin

    (@marvin)

    21 years, 10 months ago

    Unfortunately it doesn’t work in Czech 🙁
    Characters: Ä› Å¡ Ä? Å™ ž ý á í é ú ů ň …

    Thread Starter ala_747

    (@ala_747)

    21 years, 10 months ago

    Marvin: I’ll check it out looking for a solution.
    Do you know what are the html entities for chars with “ˇ” (like Ä›, for example)? It could help 🙂
    Thanks for your feedback!
    PS: the plugin is working fine, at least, with “ý á í é ú”.

    serendipity

    (@serendipity)

    21 years, 10 months ago

    ala_747: As someone who has a bilingual blog, I say: Great Work. I won’t use it once I get on a server that uses mod_rewrite. The character codes for more accented characters — you’ll need those with the hacek, are, eg, here:
    http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/symbols/entities.html
    (I think it would be great if all the letter-type characters of ISO-8859-15 and -2 would be provided for a “European” type URL encoding. I have absolutely no idea how eg Asian language handle URLs, though.)

    Anonymous

    21 years, 10 months ago

    it dosnt work in persian language
    ا ب پ ت س ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش

    marvin

    (@marvin)

    21 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you ala_747, HTML entities: http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php

    greatgoron

    (@greatgoron)

    21 years, 9 months ago

    Hi! I’m using the plugin on WP 1.2 final and it’s not working correctly. The “á, é, í, ó, ú” are not changed to “a, e, i, o , u”. Here’s my site (it’s only for experiments).
    http://www.adenoia.org/eldummy
    Hope someone can help. Saludos!

    Thread Starter ala_747

    (@ala_747)

    21 years, 9 months ago

    greatgoron: the plugin is ISO-8859 (Latin chars) based and don’t work fine on UTF-8 based blogs. If you change your charset encoding it will work ok.

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