[wp-hackers] Replacing instead of stripping umlauts

[Andy Skelton]

On 1/9/06, David House <dmhouse at gmail.com> wrote:
> A discussion came up today on #wordpress with a guy who blogs in
> German. Umlauts are stripped from slugs, and he wants them replaced
> instead of stripped completely. In German, it's acceptable to write a
> vowel with an umlaut as [vowel]e, so ä -> ae, ö -> oe and so on. Could
> we employ some code like this in remove_accents()?

I said before that it's not a translation issue but now I'd say the
translators should add filters to handle this kind of thing in their
translation plugins. If they need more API, they can have it.

Andy