accented letters in post titles are DROPPED in permalink uri

[steph-tara]

If the title of my post is "Un été chez les français" it will be converted to example.com/archive/path/un-t-chez-les-franais instead of example.com/archive/path/un-été-chez-les-francais

[michel v]

This is fixed in CVS, the fix will be in 1.2.1 or 1.3, whichever is released first.
In the meanwhile, a workaround is to post and then edit the post slug, or post using the advanced posting interface, and set the post slug right away.

There are some language-specific replacements that could lead to some discussion on the proper language-proof way to replace special characters (like ö = o in french, but = oe in german), but for now it's fixed by just replacing an accented letter by its unaccented version.

edited on: 06-20-04 19:11

[michel v]

Suspended, shall evolve into a discussion on a proper language-proof character replacement to use.