Wednesday 18 August 2004 3:13:26 pm
Hello,
I noticed that when eZ publish builds an "alias url", it stripped all special characters including accents to replace them with a "_". I'm french and accents are really <b>common usage</b> here. Nowadays, search engines (especially Google) give a considerable importance to the url of crawled pages and thats why i wanted to change this default behaviour. I made a patch against eZURLAlias:: so that it does remove accents and convert ligatures to their 2-letters equivalent. An url like : index.php/site/pr_sentation_des_l_ments_de_mon_uvre Where the title was "Présentation des éléments de mon ¼uvre" (some characters may have been dropped by your browser) would now be translated to : index.php/site/presentation_de_mon_oeuvre Witch can make a significant difference regarding to readability and search engines. I can send the patch to anyone interrested. What is the official way to send a patch to the core team ?
Regards, Ronnie Garcia.
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