Problematic Turkish Characters at The Site Links and Source

Question

Hi All,

I have a problem about turkish characters that are "ı" "ö" "ü" "ç" ...

If these characters are used any question sentence link appeares as below :

http://www.domain.com/1/offline-address-associated-particular-mailbox-store-uyar%C4%B1s%C4%B1

and in the source code  as below :

offline-address-associated-particular-mailbox-store-uyar�s�';

This square figure is a turhish character that is "ı" (little I, but not "i")

Do you have any suggestion?

Note : All site and DB and all everything is UTF-8

Thanks,

Emre.
 

Answer 1

There should be no issue with characters in Turkish or any other language. The URLs look a little weird because they contain the urlencoded versions of non-English characters in UTF-8, but search engines and modern browsers will display them correctly. Perhaps if you post a link to your site I can take a more detailed look?

Comments

Yes it is, no any problem at modern browsers for example, The Crome, but at the others i have problem.

My example link : http://www.istecevap.com/1/offline-address-associated-particular-mailbox-store-uyar%C4%B1s%C4%B1

At this point my question is that how can i convert turkish characters in title to english ones in the links? For example is from "ı" "i", "ü" "u" "ç" "c" etc.

Thanks again,

Emre.

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Modify the function qa_q_request() in qa-base.php to replace the characters you don't want in $title, at the start of the function.

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But, how? with htmlspecialchars?

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It's probably easiest to use PHP's strtr() function with an array of substitutions. Make sure you set your text editor to UTF-8 for this to work!