GBP symbol (£) not removed from permalinks

[NekoFever]

If a post title contains the symbol for the British pound sterling, £, it is not removed from the permalink URL as would be the case with most other punctuation. For example, if a post is published with the title "WordPress costs £0", the post title in the generated permalink would be "wordpress-costs-%c2%a30" instead of the expected "wordpress-costs-0".

So what's the problem? Isn't that a valid URL? This looks like an expectation bug to me, but I've been known to err.

It's a valid URL and works but it doesn't exactly look nice. Surely it's a bug when other symbols (including $ and €) get filtered but that doesn't?

Cannot duplicate. Comes out as wordpress-costs-%c2%a30

How is your £ getting past this?

	$title = preg_replace('/[^%a-z0-9 _-]/', '', $title);

Are you sure you're not using a plugin that does its own title filtering?

Mark: That's exactly the result that he's getting. You DID duplicate it. :-) The point of the bug report was to have the GBP sign stripped just as we strip dollars and yen.

Neko: Okay, I agree with you. Let's strip it before url encoding. Can you patch it?

Me no read good.

This should strip the pound symbol. I couldn't figure out where the $ symbol was being stripped so I put it in with the remove_accents() function.

I'm stupid and I need to brush up on my regular expressions. In any case because the pound symbol is a double-byte unicode char, I guess it's best placed in there with remove_accents().

2.0.5 Candidate

The Euro symbol is converted to "E"

Should the GBP symbold be converted to an "L" ?

I think it looks like an "L," but I'm American, so I'd like an opinion from someone who actually uses the currency.

Westi says "no" to converting to L, so I'm putting it in as it stands.

(In [4319]) Strip out British pound sterling (pound) symbol from post slug. fixes #2735

(In [4320]) Strip out British pound sterling (pound) symbol from post slug. fixes #2735

Milestone 2.0.5 deleted