Special chars in titles - conversion plugin, maybe?

[KodrutZ]

Is there a conversion plugin for special chars in article names? For example, let's say that the article name is "Șăptică cu șoșoni" and, as my Serendipity works right now, the result would be a non-working link to the article, because the special chars would not be saved. I hope I made myself understood a bit... so what I want is a solution for the title to be converted to normal chars in URL - www.domain.com/saptica-cu-sosoni, something like that.

[yellowled]

For example, let's say that the article name is "Șăptică cu șoșoni" and, as my Serendipity works right now, the result would be a non-working link to the article, because the special chars would not be saved.

Can you give us a proper (live) example of how this does not work in your case?

I have never seen this in another language than German, but similar characters in an entry URL in German will be converted by the Serendipity core and kept in the entry title. If I understand you correctly, this does not work in Romanian?

YL

[KodrutZ]

http://www.nistorcodrut.com/archives/Un ... un-inceput - One of the special chars - "ș" has been deleted in the URL, strange enough since it converted î to i...
P.S. Seems I can't replicate what happened yesterday when the link to the post from the main page in my blog wasn't working at all...

[LazyBadger]

Is there a conversion plugin for special chars in article names?

No, and it does not needed at all.

For any 8-bit language (which has chars outside enabled in URLs) language-file may and must have two arrays of chars:

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i18n_filename_from

and

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i18n_filename_to

, and pairs in arrays define transliteration rules. Wrong chars without rule will be skipped in final string, as you can see

BTW, serendipity_lang_ro.inc.php doesn't have these arrays in vanilla translation, but must