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Wrong umlauts and save_content.processor.php

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    Mazso Reply #1, 18 years, 10 months ago
    MODx can´t transform titles with accented characters into correct aliases. For example "Wörterbuch" should be transformed to "woerterbuch" (dictionary) not to "werterbuch". This is a real drawback for german websites and maybe websites in other languages, because you can´t let MODx create clean URLs.

    As a german native speaker I would like to suggest some changes at the file manager/processores/save_content.processor.php. 

    'Ä' => 'ae',
'Ö' => 'oe',
'U' => 'ue',
'ä' => 'ae',
'ö' => 'oe',
'ü' => 'ue',
'ß' => 'sz',


    Maybe there are some more corrections to do for other languages?

    Mazso
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      Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 18 years, 10 months ago
      This is an issue for each language, as the special characters differ between languages. I believe it’s called "transliteration", and it should be addressed in 0962.
        Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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        Mazso Reply #3, 18 years, 10 months ago
        Quote from: rthrash at Nov 12, 2007, 03:03 PM

        This is an issue for each language ... and it should be addressed in 0962.

        Yes, good idea. Textpatterns i18n-related file has something like an override modus (for finnish e.g.). Is there a way doing something similiar in MODx: One big set of signs and letters for standard transliteration and then several language specific sets.
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          opengeek Reply #4, 18 years, 10 months ago
          Indeed, though we’ll be making it into a plugin for 0.9.6.2 so it will only be used if wanted, and so it can be customized to your heart’s content.
            Jason Coward
            Chief Architect @ MODX
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            Mazso Reply #5, 18 years, 10 months ago
            Sounds great.
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              Steffen.Larsen Reply #6, 18 years, 10 months ago
              Sounds good, the danish characters aren’t supported that great either.

              For reference:

              'Æ' => 'ae',
'Ø' => 'oe',
'Å' => 'aa',
'æ' => 'ae',
'ø' => 'oe',
'å' => 'aa',
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                MadeMyDay Reply #7, 18 years, 10 months ago
                Just found this one.

                See FS979 for another possible solution.
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