I'm using Pathauto 5.x-2.x-dev and finding that there are issues with punctuation in node titles and categories when aliases are created.

With node titles, punctuation is not being stripped away. For example, if I title a node: "This: Is A Test!" then the alias will be sitename.com/category/this:-is-a-test! when I hover over the link. If I actually follow the link and view the full node, the URL then shows as sitename.com/category/this%3A-is-a-test%21, with the punctuation being replaced by other characters.

With categories(default taxonomy module), I am having similar issues with categories that have a "&" character, as they are not being stripped away. For example, if I create a node and select a category of advertising & marketing, the alias for the category shows up as sitename.com/advertising-%2526-marketing-0 instead of sitename.com/advertising-marketing like it used to when I was using 5.x-1.1. BTW, I switched over to 5.x-2.x-dev because of issues with the include file, which is referenced elsewhere in the issue queue.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Title: issues with punctuation in node titles and categories when aliases are created » document transliteration and punctuation changes for 5.x

Well, this is a "feature" of the 5.x-2 branch. So...it sounds like we'll need to do lots of documentation :)

Basically the point is that the title is the title whether it contains non ASCII-96 characters or punctuation it should be put directly into the title. You can get around this behavior by using the i18n-ascii.txt file to "transliterate" from ! to your separator character.

Can you please test that and let me know how it goes?

Also, what is the include problem you mention?

Thanks for the help in testing!

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David N commented

Thanks Greg! I will definitely try that out as soon as I can. As for the "include" issue, my memory had it mixed up with an issue with the Token module, that involves Pathauto. It's been referenced here: http://drupal.org/node/139959

I switched over to 5.x-2.x-dev because I was having issues like the one mentioned here: http://drupal.org/node/124701. Those are gone now, thankfully.

On a sidenote, I noticed that 5.x-2.x-dev doesn't display help tips that tell a user what he/she might use to create aliases. For example, [cat] [title] [user] [vocab] etc. I take it those are still applicable though?

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Title: document transliteration and punctuation changes for 5.x » document transliteration/punctuation and token/pattern changes for 5.x

Hi - the problem with the list of available tokens not showing means that you probably didn't apply the patch from http://drupal.org/node/139959#comment-237674

Anyway, that's out of scope of this issue...

Another thing that brings up is that some of the tokens have changed now as well. I changed the title to reflect that. Thanks!

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David N commented

Greg,

Some followup: The transliteration worked like a charm. This newest version doesn't appear to be throwing me any curveballs; thank you for your hard work.

There is some unexplainable behavior though, that I cannot figure out. When I generated bulk aliases for my taxonomy, it would take for example, taxonomy/term/100 and create an alias for a node that doesn't exist and call it forum/100, even though I don't have the forum module enabled. It would assign an alias of "cars" for example, to forum/100 instead of to taxonomy/term/100, which was assigned "cars-0." Not a big deal, as I just went in and deleted all the forum/* aliases and renamed the terms with 0 at the end of them.

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Good to hear.

There is a forum bug that I haven't looked at much which I need to look into...Wim Leers is working to fix it in http://drupal.org/node/118676

One other thought about the punctuation/transliteration support - can you provide a list of the punctuation marks that you've changed over? I think it could be helpful to provide those either as commented out examples or in the INSTALL.txt so that folks can see how it should work.

Thanks!

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From an email - "!, :, ?" were the punctuation types that were problematic.

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Well, one is [user] to [user-name]

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taqwa commented

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this, but my apostrophes show up as 039.

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meatbites commented

Lukas, your issue is easily fixed by a patch I made, which is awaiting review. You can try it out here: http://drupal.org/node/167786

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karunadave commented

There used to be tokens for events, such as [eventdd] [eventmon] [eventyyyy] [title]

Using these would give me an event node path such as 14_09_2007_Eventtitle. At the moment I am getting
http://www.lamayesheling.org/%5Beventdd%5D_%5Beventmon%5D_%5Beventyyyy%5.... Ack!

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HorsePunchKid commented

@karunadave - Check out this issue for the event module, which contains a possible solution.

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Title: document transliteration/punctuation and token/pattern changes for 5.x » document transliteration, punctuation, pattern, Bulk Generation changes for 5.x-2
Component: Miscellaneous » Documentation
Status: Active » Needs work

Well, I decided to create a wiki page on groups.drupal.org because that seems like the easiest way to collaborate on this

Please see (and hopefully provide feedback on) http://groups.drupal.org/node/6706

Thanks.

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I just spent a little while refreshing that page by organizing the bullet items into "new features/reasons to ugprade" and then "upgrade advice".

Realistically, people need motivation to upgrade aside from the fact that 5.x-1.x is going to die. When I stepped back and looked at all the new features I was actually surprised at how many new features are available in this version.

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Status: Needs work » Fixed

I'm going to call this good.

Thanks folks.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.