Same old problem with URL character replacement...

Hi Emir,

I just bought this component this morning, and now that I'm back from work and testing, I've stumbled on a common issue: the character replacement for URLs.

I'm yet to understand what I did wrong, and yes, I've read the FAQ post on the 404 error.

The replacements I've done are impossible in my language (portuguese), i.e. "aa" , "oo" , "ii", etc. The only thing I'm not sure of is if I can use the same replacement rule for more than one character..., i.e. "ã=>aa,å=>aa".

I know I can do these changes directly on the .htaccess as well. What do you recommend?

Wallace

BTW,

These are the rules as I typed them in the field:

å=>aa,á=>aa,à=>aa,ã=>aa,â=>aa,ó=>oo,ô=>oo,õ=>oo,ö=>oo,í=>ii,é=>ee,ê=>ee,ø=>oe,æ=>aae,ü=>uu,ç=>cc

The replacements I've done are impossible in my language (portuguese), i.e. "aa" , "oo" , "ii", etc. The only thing I'm not sure of is if I can use the same replacement rule for more than one character..., i.e. "ã=>aa,å=>aa".

No you can't. You must use unique replacement for each character.
For example: "ã=>ea,å=>aa".

Thanks a lot Emir...

Below is the solution I came up with for Portuguese characters, in case someone here runs into the same trouble:

ã=>aa,á=>aaa,à=>aaaa,â=>aaaaa,å=>aaaaaa,õ=>oo,ó=>ooo,ô=>oooo,ö=>ooooo,í=>ii,é=>ee,ê=>eee,ø=>ooe,æ=>aae,ú=>uu,ü=>uuu,ç=>cc

One thing that left me wondering...

Because of the special characters that had to be replaced in Portuguese, my urls became a little not read-friendly. Like so:

http://www.artistadigital.net/ajuda/diferenccas-entre-membros-e-usuaaarios/quais-saao-os-privileegios-de-um-membro?/

However, when I manually modify the URL so that all the extra letters are gone, the URL still works (note words like "usuAAArios" became "usuArios"

http://www.artistadigital.net/ajuda/diferencas-entre-membros-e-usuarios/quais-sao-os-privilegios-de-um-membro?/

The problem is, even though it works without the extra letters, the URL produced will still have them. I was wondering if there's a workaround for this, some javascript, or if I could use hexadecimal characters to define letters without having to make them so unique ("aa", "aaa", "aaaa", etc):

http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/tech/charsets/ascii.html >> hex. char.

I'm sorry to bug you with it, but I'm just trying to find out a solution for my problem... 

Cheers

That's exactly what you get when you don't enter any replacements. You get URL encoded chars like %24, %45.

You can have it either URL encoded or replaced by unique strings. Or enter manual alias for URLs you don't like.