[#5446] Unicode Aliases for Vietnamese site

Hi supporters,

My webstite is crafst.com.

My website using Vietnamese so that I want to turn on "Unicode Aliases". But when creating blogs from CB, the alias are not created correctly.

While I create article using core joomla function (click on "CREATE ARTICLE"), it still works. Alias is still unicode.

Can you tell me how to solve that problem?

You can try with:

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Thank you and looking forwards to hearing your reply.

Hai

That's probably not going to work with CB Blogs. It has its own Alias generation function, which is based off Joomlas. It has no support for that parameter. Have added a feature ticket to look into implementing this for a later release.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/5446

Thank you Krileon,

Because I use Vietnamese for my site. When I create a blog, the auto alias cannot be read by human. For example:

The title of blog is "Đại học Việt Nam trong bảng xếp hạng thế giới"

The auto alias will be "139-i-h-c-vi-t-nam-trong-b-ng-x-p-h-ng-th-gi-i-2".

If the alias cannot be exactly like the title, please tell me if you know anyway to make the alias nicer, like: "dai-hoc-viet-nam-trong-bang-xep-hang-the-gioi"?

Thank you and regards,

Hai Dinh

The alias is generated from the title, but in your case our usage doesn't support the Unicode parameter so it's not generating how you're expecting. We'll have to implement support for it. For now there's nothing you can do unless you want to try modifying the source code below, which converts title to alias.

IN: components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbblogs/models/joomla25.php
ON: Line 230

Thank you Krileon.

Hi Krileon,

Can you help me a litle more on this issue.

In this code:

private static function getTitleAlias( $title )
{
$alias = str_replace( '-', ' ', $title );
$alias = trim( cbIsoUtf_strtolower( $alias ) );
$alias = preg_replace( '/(\s|[^A-Za-z0-9\-])+/', '-', $alias );
$alias = trim( $alias, '-' );
return $alias;
}

When I delete this line:

$alias = preg_replace( '/(\s|[^A-Za-z0-9\-])+/', '-', $alias );

The alias become better. It still unicode but, spaces are replaced with "%20".

Like this:

Title: Những động vật quý hiếm ở xứ sở các vị thần

Alias: 145-những%20động%20vật%20quý%20hiếm%20ở%20xứ%20sở%20các%20vị%20thần-3

Can you tell me how to replace "%20" with a dash "-" ? Or there is any other way to create the alias?

Thank you very much and looking forwards to hering from you.

Hai Dinh