I also interested in slugs with transliteration.
But, I think, It could be done from the plugin, main idea is to use hooks around create methods.
Areas where It could be used:
Topic titles Categories User namesI have 2 plugins in plans: utils - to reconstruct in-place slugs, for me It's easier to have lightweight utility, than very heavy import script; slugs - I'm also not happy with Cyrillic letters in urls 😉
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@julian slugs are really good candidate for core improvement 😉