Alias generation and accentuated characters

Hi,

I suppose it is not a big problem for english people but for french, espagnol... and every accentuated languages, there is a little problem : during the alias generation, the accentuated characters disappears
Example : the generated alias of the title "Présentation" become "prsentation"

It should be very appreciable to ameliorate the process in a future version to have a generated alias without accent but with all the letter (ie : "Présentation" -> "presentation")

Thx

You can do it with a plugin, see this.

Simple solution to replace accents in alias on Modx Revolution :

The magic trick => "urlencode"

Place this code in : /core/model/modx/modressource.class.php => line 369 just before "return $alias" :

// =================================================================================================================

$alias = urlencode($alias);

$a = array("c3a0","c3a1","c3a2","c3a3","c3a4","c3a5","c3a0","c3a1","c3a2","c3a3","c3a4","c3a5","c3b2","c3b3",
"c3b4","c3b5","c3b6","c3b8","c3b2","c3b3","c3b4","c3b5","c3b6","c3b8","c3a8","c3a9","c3aa","c3ab","c3a8","c3a9",
"c3aa","c3ab","c3a7","c3a7","c3ac","c3ad","c3ae","c3af","c3ac","c3ad","c3ae","c3af","c3b9","c3ba","c3bb","c3bc",
"c3b9","c3ba","c3bb","c3bc","c3bf","c3b1","c3b1");

$b = Array("a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","e","e",
"e","e","e","e","e","e","c","c","i","i","i","i","i","i","i","i","u","u","u","u","u","u","u","u","y","n","n");

$alias = str_replace($a, $b, $alias);

// =================================================================================================================

How submit this nice tip to the dev for a future version ?
Is there oposition to use this one by default in future version of MODx Revolution (and Evo) ?

This is already available. See the translit package for an example.

Thanks OpenGeek
But ma question is more about the "by default"
If I need to install a package to have this universal* transcodage, it’s not "by default"

Spheerys

*for me, but I listing every alternative way of thinking ^^

There is no universal "transcodage" — this is why the core provides basic transcoding via platform extensions and can be extended via Add-Ons to do custom transcoding to order.

I thought a transcodage proposed by lechmit was a good "default" for the majority of languages.
Anycase, better than a transcode based on characters deletion, for example : "déjà-vu" to "dj-vu"

Is there a place to debate of this ?

Quote from: Spheerys at Aug 01, 2011, 10:07 AM

I thought a transcodage proposed by lechmit was a good "default" for the majority of languages.
Anycase, better than a transcode based on characters deletion, for example : "déjà-vu" to "dj-vu"

Is there a place to debate of this ?

We are discussing it right here.

With my default settings, there is no loss of any characters in the alias, déjà-vu stays déjà-vu. This is the default behavior as designed and intended. If you want to apply transliteration techniques, there is a mechanism for it in place. Is this default loss of characters because you are attempting to use the iconv friendly_alias_translit setting?