How to hace nice URLs?

[baris]

@darkpollo looks like we used replace accented characters with regular ones but it was changed to support unicode slugs long time ago, https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/53caa5e422b986aa6e4a6e7350267777ad5741a5, not sure if reverting back would break stuff @julian

[darkpollo]

@baris Thanks.

It seems that when that was changed, we lost that ability. Maybe just updating slugify could work?
We are using a 11 years old slugify version...

Or just add back this:

// remove accents, swap ñ for n, etc
			var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîıòóöôùúüûñçşğ·/_,:;";
			var to = "aaaaeeeeiiiiioooouuuuncsg------";
			for (var i = 0, l = from.length; i < l; i++) {
				str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), 'g'), to.charAt(i));
			}

Also I have been reading the forum and I found many post about this, most are from non-English languages.
I think this is something should be addressed and fixed but of course we do not want to break anything.

[darkpollo]

Any news or comments on this? Should it be moved to bugs?

[baris]

You can open an issue on our github, it is likely a breaking change because it would alter old slugs, for example if a user had a userslug of àáäâ i would become aaaaafter this change, same for categories, groups. So it isn't a simple change of just updating the slugify function.

[darkpollo]

@baris it should only affect new slugs. Are the slugs generated live after each visit? That makes little sense.

[baris]

They are not generated live. If we only apply it to new slugs then you will have tons of slugs in the old format. Not sure if that will lead to other issues.

[darkpollo]

@baris
Right now it is leading to many issues to any non english speaker forum.

I think this should be reported as bug and then you can decide the best way to implement, it should not be a problem if you only apply this to new slugs.

[darkpollo]

I made some search and it seems this is not new:

Turkish URL Transliteration

Hi, Characters in Turkish language appear broken in URLs. Characters like I, Ş, Ö, Ç break the URL structure. Is there a solution to this?

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Cyrillic url transliteration

Hi. Sorry for my bad english. I installed Nodebb, I really liked the forum. I think Nodebb is the best forum in the world. But 1 big drawback upset me. I did...

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Remove accents from URL

Hi all, Merry Christmas to all I need help with removing accents from urls, I am new in node so pls help me where to find that part in nodebb (creating new c...

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[Astro What]

I think this may be similar to what Xenforo had some dealings with? They have an option in the ACP to romanize URL's.

[darkpollo]

@julian how will this issue with the urls with accents and Ñ ñ affect the federated content and urls?