Special characters creating bad URLs

[Gus]

Hi,

I tried to migrate over 2.3 and everything worked fine excepted for the following.

I use ISO-8859-1 and the whole text displays OK.
But when the title of a category, an article or a tag contains a special character, the URL rewriting transforms this character into a %2E or %20 and so on.

How can I solve this (ie : that the URL rewriting transforms e acute into e, e grave into e, a grave into a, and so on) ?

Thanks in advance
Gus

[linksor.com]

1. go to /lib/ directory

2. find misc.lib.php file and open it in the text editor which allows you to write it in iso-8859-1 !!

3. find the code (this is SEOReplace function):

 // replace special chars
    $seo_replacement_str_arr = array (
      ' ','-','/','\\',',','.','#',':',';','\'','"','[',']','{','}',
      ')','(','|','`','~','!','@','%','$','^','&','*','=','?','+');
      
    $string = str_replace($seo_replacement_str_arr, '-', $string);
   
    $string = str_replace(GetWesternUTF('s'), 's', $string);
    $string = str_replace(GetWesternUTF('g'), 'g', $string);

4. change to:

 // replace special chars
    $seo_replacement_str_arr = array (
      ' ','-','/','\\',',','.','#',':',';','\'','"','[',']','{','}',
      ')','(','|','`','~','!','@','%','$','^','&','*','=','?','+');
      
    $string = str_replace($seo_replacement_str_arr, '-', $string);
   
	 $string = str_replace('ą', 'a', $string);
	 $string = str_replace('ę', 'e', $string);
	
...
...
...
...

	 $string = str_replace('Ą', 'A', $string);
	 $string = str_replace('Ę', 'E', $string);
	 
    $string = str_replace(GetWesternUTF('s'), 's', $string);
    $string = str_replace(GetWesternUTF('g'), 'g', $string);

5. save that file in the code you want (i.e. iso-8859-2)

little explanation:

$string = str_replace('x', 'y', $string);

x - first letter in your language
y - second letter which will be displayed

[Gus]

I already had a look at that function, but could not understand where the error was lying.

If you are right, this shows that transcoding is a bit more difficult than imagined by the coders ...

[Gus]

Should be part of the future versions ...

[linksor.com]

IMHO it is very difficult to create multilingual SEORewrite rule - so you must change it for your own.