News Manager

[Carlos]

So it seems GS has trouble creating slugs if your server does not have the multibyte extension (mb_* functions) and you use non US-ASCII latin characters (á, è, ...) in your page titles. This also affects News Manager posts because it uses GS's own functions to create the post slug.

This is a patch to fix this issue (until a new GS release does):

Edit /admin/inc/basic.php, find this (around line 62):

PHP Code:

function to7bit($text,$from_enc="UTF-8") {
        if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
           $text = mb_convert_encoding($text,'HTML-ENTITIES',$from_enc);
       } 


Just after that, in line 66, insert this:

PHP Code:

    else 
        $text = htmlspecialchars_decode(utf8_decode(htmlentities($text, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8', false))); 


...just before this:

PHP Code:

$text = preg_replace( 


Now you should be able to use a title like Déjà vu, and the page slug will be deja-vu (and saved as deja-vu.xml, not as d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu.xml).

(Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11974...es-charset )