[wp-hackers] non-ascii characters at URL and pasrsing those chars at string level

Haluk Karamete halukkaramete at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 23:59:15 UTC 2014


I will look into that. your suggestion looks very promising. thank you for
that.
I also discovered this resource http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/charsets/ for
my own DIY.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jason LeVan <jason at codeclarified.com> wrote:

> urldecode() mixed with remove_accents() perhaps?
>
>
> https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-includes/formatting.php#L794
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> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > First off, I need to get you what non-ascii chacters I'm talking about.
> >
> > For instance, just type in 'Slobodan Milosevic' in Google Search and go
> to
> > the first suggested wikipedia link.
> >
> > You will see that the URL contains very unusual characters that is well
> > beyond the common ASCII set. I'm simply curious if WordPress support
> that.
> >
> > Though this is not a feature I particularly like (to say the least), I do
> > confess that I find it quite interesting from an HTTP point of view.
> >
> > But my real question (or pain to better put) is this.
> > Say you are scraping that data and you came across that title with those
> > funny characers...  and you want to create a tag out of that.
> >
> > Is there a conversion function that I can pass in that string and get
> back
> > the ASCII 128 or below translated version?
> >
> > So I pass in 'slobodan_milo%c5%a1evi%c4%87', and I get back the good old
> > 'Slobodan Milosevic'
> >
> > Does such a function exist? Or how do you deal with that situation?
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