Permalink generation for other languages than English

[diegosouza]

Let me give you an example:

"Educação" becomes "educa-o"

The field is editable but someone posting "Educação" would expect a permalink like "educacao". Since the application supports other languages, we should think about it.

My first idea was to replace letters like this:

var filteredString;

filteredString = postTitle.replace(/[àãáâ]/gi, 'a');
filteredString = filteredString.replace(/[ç]/gi, 'c');
filteredString = filteredString.replace(/[éêë]/gi, 'e');

// more filtering...

This approach is not great but works. The problem is that the patterns should be updated according to the new language additions. Also it wouldn't work for Esperanto, because "mesaĝo" should become "mesagxo" or "mesagho".

[greyblake]

It makes sense, thanks. I guess there supposed to be some libraries in JS for things like this..
It's even funnier with languages that use cyrillic (russian, ukranian).

[diegosouza]

It seems to be a problem that will be easier to deal in future JS specifications.
I haven't found a good library for this. If you find, let me know.

Take a look at this article. The best way I found. I could choose only portuguese symbols to be used by now.