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".

[skeltoac]

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.

[NekoFever]

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?

[markjaquith]

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?

[skeltoac]

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?

[markjaquith]

Me no read good.

[ketsugi]

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.

[ketsugi]

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().

[Nazgul]

2.0.5 Candidate

[markjaquith]

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.

[markjaquith]

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

[markjaquith]

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

[markjaquith]

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

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