How to create unicode slug for unicode title?

Question

I want to sanitize blog titles with unicode characters in url. I need to replace invalid characters and spaces with "-" for better seo rewriting like this.

        http://example.com/это-моя-хорошая

Can anyone have any idea how to do it?

i don't want the characters like . , [] {} / ? in my url. If user post the title with these characters i want to change it to '-' for better seo. — uttam, Mar 01 '12 at 06:44
I've no idea which language u are using, since i don't see a C# tag. But in C# i would do Url.Encode() — rfcdejong, Mar 01 '12 at 12:46

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '12 at 12:42

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You can use this algorithm for an SEO-friendly Unicode URL:

Convert the text to Unicode Normalization Form C, i.e. precomposed characters.
Use a regular expression with Unicode character classes to replace each non-letter non-digit character with a space.
Remove leading, trailing and double spaces.
Shorten.
Replace spaces with hyphens.

answered Mar 01 '12 at 12:42

Anthony Faull

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Thanks for the algorithm. I started looking after normalization of unicode characters and found this link http://www.php.net/manual/en/normalizer.normalize.php . Is this the correct function to normalize or are there any other library or function that could normalize unicode characters? – uttam Mar 05 '12 at 01:09
@uttam That's right. In PHP you can use Normalizer::normalize. – Anthony Faull Mar 05 '12 at 08:33

How to create unicode slug for unicode title?

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