Hey there,
I am porting my blog (in Portuguese) to Typo and noticed that to_url
ignores characters with accents, like "?", "?", "?", etc.
If the idea behind to_url is to have a nice-looking URL in the browser
we need to get rid of these special characters, otherwise they will
show up as % entities in the URL box.
Having no idea if this is the best approach for the problem I created
a "remove_accents" function which I added to lib/transforms.rb.
Since I have no idea on how to submit a patch and this function is
really small I am going to post it here. 8-)
def remove_accents
return if self.nil?
temp = self.clone
trans = [
[195,161,'a'],[195,160,'a'],[195,163,'a'],[195,162,'a'],[195,169,'e'],[195,170,'e'],[195,173,'i'],[195,179,'o'],[195,180,'o'],[195,181,'o'],[195,186,'u'],[195,188,'u'],[195,167,'c'],[195,129,'A'],[195,128,'A'],[195,131,'A'],[195,130,'A'],[195,137,'E'],[195,138,'E'],[195,141,'I'],[195,147,'O'],[195,148,'O'],[195,149,'O'],[195,154,'U'],[195,156,'U'],[195,135,'C']
]
trans.each do |t|
temp.gsub! sprintf("%c%c",t[0],t[1]),t[2]
end
temp
end
Line 4 creates an array for each 2-byte Unicode entity and its
translation. It is important to point out that I have only covered
characters used in Portuguese, so it might be a good idea for people
in the list to contribute with more codes, like the ones for "?", for
example. Comments would make me very happy, since I am just starting
in this whole Ruby+Rails thing. :-)
I hope this helps,
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