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Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories)
Hi,

I use the German Version of GL.

I've categories with german umlauts like "Motorräder"
In the content are umlauts written correctly, but in the URL you have only a "_" and not a "ä" or a "ä"

http://www.italien.ch/glinks/pages/Fahrzeuge___Transporte___Logistik/Motorr_der/index.html
Link: http://www.italien.ch/...otorr_der/index.html
How can I fix it?

p.s. same problem with "&" for categories

thanks

andy
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Re: [turischt] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
Thats how its meant to be =) (cos foreign charachters are not supported in URLs)

Are you using static pages, or dynamic ones? (with mod_rewrite)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Re: [Andy] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
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Thats how its meant to be =) (cos foreign charachters are not supported in URLs)
hehe,

I think I'm using the static pages
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Re: [turischt] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
Ok cool, try the StaticURLtr plugin (should be able to download it from Plugins > Download > Show , and then scroll through those pages until you fine it.

This lets youy change stuff like "ä" into "a" , which is valid for URLs :)

Cheers

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Re: [Andy] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
thanks andy,


but something is going wrong,

I did:

*build_category_format: holecatecory/longcategory/Name
*I didn't use detail pages

1. Edit the plugin options
replacements:
&:-
F:f
ä:ae

2. build all

but nothing is happened

;-(
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Re: [turischt] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
Are you sure you are using static pages? In the home.html template, add some text to the bottom of it (something like "test"). Then (WITHOUT doing a build) goto your homepage - and see if the extra text shows up on the homepage.

Cheers

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Re: [Andy] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
ou yes, curious, I thought I use the static pages. Whistle
The text appears.

How I change it only for static pages, so I can see the results Angelic
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Re: [turischt] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
Hi,

To make it so you use static pages, you would need to open up the .htaccess file in your public_html (or www folder) ... and just comment all the lines out. For example:

Code:
RewriteCond ....

..would become:

Code:
# RewriteCond ....

Then, try it again and see if it works.

You can still do the "replacement" thing with dynamic pages, but its more complex and would need to be done as a custom job I'm afraid :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Re: [Andy] Problem with German umlauts in the URL (Categories) In reply to
thank you andy,

in public_html I have nothing from the glinks software only in the glinks folder;

Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*)\.css $1.css [L]
RewriteRule ^images/(.*) images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html /glinks/page.cgi?d=1&g=$1.html [L]
RewriteRule ^$ /glinks/page.cgi?d=1 [L]

but

Let's drop the whole thing! its too complicated form me Crazy

thanks andy