id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
18170	sanitize_title_with_dashes() don't strip out some special punctuation	husobj		"Found an issue where sanitize_title_with_dashes() doesn't strip out some 'special' punctuation.

In my example it wasn't stripping out long or em-dashes.

The em-dash got in there by copying and pasting from elsewhere and may happen frequently.

This didn't cause an issue directly in the browser as that was able to handle a long dash OK, but in using the permalink in another scenario it came through as encoded characters which messed up the link.

I could possible filter the encoding out before using it, but it would be better and safer if em-dashes got replaced by the sanitize_title_with_dashes() function (and sanitize_title if that doesn't already).

The other knock-on effect was that if there is an em-dash you end up with loads of hyphens in the slug.

For example:
""Biography - About Me"" (with an em-dash not a hyphen)

Becomes:
""biography---about-me"" (where the middle hyphen is actually an em-dash)

If your title uses a hyphen rather than em-dash it collapses fine:
""biography-about-me""
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