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Stopping pathauto from attempting to use special characters that end up encoding uglilyStopping pathauto from attempting to use special characters that end up encoding uglily
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on September 26, 2007 - 4:58pm
When a pattern includes certain characters (such as those with accents) should Pathauto attempt to transliterate them into the ASCII-96 alphabet? Transliteration is determined by the i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory. This option is disabled on your site because you do not have an i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory.
Resolution
cp i18n-ascii.example.txt i18n-ascii.txt
Just to give the option. we don't have to use it.
This has to be repeated every time we update the pathauto module.
In our set-up, in my checkout of Agaric's repository, the command is:
Ebony:~/workspace/repos/agaric/drupal-contrib/5/modules ben$ cp pathauto-5.x-2.0-beta3.tar/pathauto/i18n-ascii.example.txt pathauto-5.x-2.0-beta3.tar/pathauto/i18n-ascii.txt
Ebony:~/workspace/repos/agaric/drupal-contrib/5/modules ben$ svn add pathauto-5.x-2.0-beta3.tar/pathauto/i18n-ascii.txt
It would be really nice not to have to do this every time we update the module.
Searched words:
pathauto making silly aliases with percent characters % and such
Comments
This fix did NOT
This fix did NOT work.
Quotation marks and other special characters still were converted to ugly ASCII codes.
A patch proposed (not by us) for pathauto 2 fixes it:
http://agaricdesign.com/note/thisll-test-32s-special-character-removal-ill-be-happy
Agaric is running this patch on our sites now. We'll see if it gets in.
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