Ideas for Arc XP

Add support for Japanese to slugify()

Add support for Japanese to slugify()

  • Rob W
  • Dec 1 2021
  • Future consideration
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  • Rob W commented
    December 03, 2021 19:30

    No transliteration needed - just the ability to have the actual Japanese headline in the URL, similar to this: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語.

    We've found that readable URLs get a lot more click-through than opaque IDs, so that's not really an option

  • Megan DeLaunay commented
    December 03, 2021 19:19

    One additional question! Currently, the slugify method converts Latin text to lower case and adds hyphens between word breaks. We do not currently support non-Latin characters in URLs. Is this request asking for transliteration of non-Latin text? (For an example, this is currently provided when adding Tags in Arc).

  • Jenny Czaja commented
    December 03, 2021 19:02

    Thank you for submitting this idea. I've marked it for future consideration. In the meanwhile, for non-Latin-alphabet based (like Japanese), we suggest using the _id in the url. Here is an Arc Answers post with more details: https://redirector.arcpublishing.com/alc/answers/576