url_alias not supporting UTF8 .. or what ?!

Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:16:27 am - 7 replies

7 replies

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Bård Farstad	Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:29:06 am The url alias does not support other characters than 0-9 a-z and _. We need extend this to support unicode type url's. BTW: do you have a link to the site. It would be interesting to see that kind of internationalized site. Also: are you using MySQL 4.1 or PostgreSQL? --bård Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Selmah Maxim	Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:35:57 am I see .. Then just the english site will use url_alias, else node_id ! Not yet, still developing it in localhost. thx.
Bård Farstad	Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:50:14 am What we need to do is make a solution for this that works. We could of course just encode the characters like the norwegian characters æøå can be used in an URL by encoding it as %E6%F8%E5, but I think that this looks very dirty and is not very user friendly - which was the Idèa with the url_alias. The second solution which we can implement is a translation table for every character set which will convert o->oe, æ->ae and å->aa. But this will only work for character based languages. For chinese and japanese I do not have a good suggestion. A fallback solution would be to use the node id if the name is empty. E.g. /home/news/120/420/. Any input? --bård Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Selmah Maxim	Wednesday 18 June 2003 6:13:00 am I agree with you .. will be to long and ugly link :) But .. I have some sites which use friendly url, and it`s can grap the UTF8 fonts normal, but the i don`t use utf-8 charset, am using windows-1256, and it`s work fine, and geting the artical from DB by the artical name which is in utf8 , but will be little bit difficult to write the link manually for hebrew and arabic language, beciz is starting from right to left :) ! btw .. the site will use Mysql.
Tamas Takacs	Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:08:07 pm Hi, We are about to set up a Hungarian language site, where I'd like to use a translation table like solution for converting accented vowels: á -> a ó,ö,ő -> o ü,ű -> u í -> i Since the existing url_translator simply leaves these above mentioned letters out from the string, the practical result is something "very difficult to understand" urls. I understand, that implementing of this charactertable conversion module is not top priority for eZ, so I am happy to do it (or at least try :), also I am not very familiar with the source yet, so I'd be glad for some assistance of locating the script responsible for URL translations. Tamas
Mikhail Chekanov	Monday 29 December 2003 9:28:01 am Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Is there any suggestion how editors can assign url_alias manually for each object? For exapmple: Directory "Economy and business" has url_alias "business" only and an article with title "McDonald's, Wendy's shares beef up" has url_alias "sharesbeefup". Lazy editors can simply leave this field blank to generate it automatically. And, finally, I don't think that translation table ф,Ф->F should be good enough for non-latin languages (russian, chinese, bulgarian, etc) because such translation kills the sense constituent of "url_alias" BTW: Nice urls are important not only for users, but can bring some additional pageranking for search engines. -- mike #6595551
liu spider	Tuesday 30 December 2003 2:17:34 pm I agree with eoNormalMutation, as for non-latin based Language, manually alias_url is the best choice (in fact by fat the only solution I can come up with) I did patch eZ 3.1 to support this, although with some limitations( only main location's url can be assigned). Unfortunately, I lost all the source code :( Hope this would be a new feature in eZ 3.4 series. http://liucougar.scim-im.org SCIM Input Method Platform http://scim.sf.net SJSD Online Editor http://sf.net/projects/sjsd

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