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Apostrophes should not be converted to hyphens for URLs
When an article title has apostrophes in it, Textpattern currently turns that into a hyphen when making up a URL. Don’t you think it would be better to simply remove that character in URLs instead?
For example, a title of:
It's my articleCurrently is converted to a URL of:
mysite.com/it-s-my-articleWhen it could be:
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Re: Apostrophes should not be converted to hyphens for URLs
I like that Phil. I read, somewhere here recently, a thread suggesting the apostrophe remain but I have a niggling feeling way back in my mind that would be a potential problem. Simply removing them would be better. More “readable” that way methinks.
Stuart
In a Time of Universal Deceit
Telling the Truth is Revolutionary.
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Re: Apostrophes should not be converted to hyphens for URLs
Diacritics and punctuation are very culture-dependent, so we have a stable chance of “doing it wrong” in core. Lucky chaps that we are, there’s a hook for plugins to fulfill even the most esoteric wishes. Go ad lib.
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