I've noticed that extended ASCII characters are preserved in the title slug, thus creating very unattractive permalinks when they are escaped.
For example, if I enter the title:
“Testing” — ‘the test’ [that's an em-dash and all quotes are curly]
the slug is saved as:
“testing”-—-‘the-test’ [em-dash and curly quotes preserved]
It should be:
testing-the-test
How can I fix this?
By the way,
"Testing" - 'the test' [straight quotes and a hyphen]
is correctly slugged as
testing-the-test
I added these 2 lines to the START of the sanitize_title_with_dashes function in wp-include/formatting.php:
$title = preg_replace('/[“”‘’]/', '', $title); //delete curly quotes
$title = preg_replace('/[–—]/', '-', $title); //en- and em-dash to hyphenThis topic has been closed to new replies.
