Googling "ASCII-96 set" only brings up references to pathauto. It isn't a 'thing'.

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#1 ascii-message.patch1.32 KBdan3h

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dan3h’s picture

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Agreed-- "ASCII-96" is not a thing, and Google returns nothing for it.

However, I found this in pathauto.inc:

  // Reduce to the subset of ASCII96 letters and numbers
  if (variable_get('pathauto_reduce_ascii', FALSE)) {
    $pattern = '/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/]+/ ';
    $output = preg_replace($pattern, $separator, $output);
  }

So, that says to me that the documentation should be changed to be more clear/correct:

was: "Reduce strings to letters and numbers from ASCII-96"
should be: "Reduce strings to letters and numbers"

was: "Filters the new alias to only letters and numbers found in the ASCII-96 set."
should be: "Filters the new alias to contain only numbers and non-accented letters, replacing anything else with the seperator character."

If you like this, I have attached a patch for it. (Sorry, doesn't have any changes to the translation files.)

Dan

Freso’s picture

Title: What is "ASCII-96 set" » "ASCII-96" is not a 'thing'
Component: Documentation » User interface
Category: support » bug
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Needs review

I can't see why not... Greg?

greggles’s picture

Title: "ASCII-96" is not a 'thing' » Use more descriptive text than ASCII-96
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Works great for me. Committed to 6.x-2.x and 7.x since those are the only places we should change strings.

http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=327016
http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=327014

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.