Continuing the discussion from Disabling English slugfier for topic’s URL in Korean language setting :
Actually, some guys appeal to add control over this in Chinese communities. However, I don’t care this. Most Chinese users won’t notice the slug. I may wrong.
Slug may be helpful for SEO, or not. At least, the default topic is sufficient. Now I am open to your proposal about options here. But the options should be a site setting. @winterbox Can you open a feature for this option to help me track this proposal.
zh.wikipedia.org use Unicode as url since its start at 2002.
Some programs can’t handle it very well, they may show a long encoded string when pasted some url into them which looks bad. Leave a site setting to change is ok.
Everyone has their own preference on URL structures:
/topic/###/discourse-is-awesome/반갑습니다-여러분/您好or possibly transliteration
Some might prefer just English letters & numbers combination even they use their own languages.
If Discourse allows admins can choose the URL structure, it would be very useful.Customize permalinks – Documentation – WordPress.org http://codex.wordpress.org/images/a/ad/permalink-settings.png
To me, /t/topic/### is just OK, but maybe there are people who want to use other structure types in my country. Also, giving options seems better, so I create this topic.
@fantasticfears would you add details or feedback?
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(PS: This quote is broken…)
winterbox:
To me, /t/topic/### is just OK, but maybe there are people who want to use other structure types in my country. Also, giving options seems better, so I create this topic.
Thanks to some heavy route logic, it’s not that easy and necessary to implement custom url structure.
I would insist on /t/:topic_slug/:topic_id URL structure. There are some custom options applies to :topic_slug, which convert as:
default: anything to topic
english: Discourse 测试 to discourse(current behaviour)
same as title: 반갑습니다-여러분 to 반갑습니다-여러분
Does that make sense to you?
I think I misunderstood your idea…Did you want to customize all topic’s slug? I don’t like this idea since it confuses people when they saw it.
fantasticfears:
same as title: 반갑습니다-여러분 to 반갑습니다-여러분
Does ‘same as title’ mean: 안녕하세요-discourse to 안녕하세요-discourse? (English + Non-English to English + Non-English)
What do you mean? Choose slug type whenever they create topics???
Yes. Only sanitized some symbol cannot be used as URL.
And ‘English’ means : cutting out non-English letters. Right? Then I love your options.
But I don’t understand what you mean here:
It’s the current behaviour . When you mix CJK characters, english letters and numbers, the Discourse strips CJK characters.
I mean did you want some mechanism to set the topic’s url like category slug you proposaled days ago?
Yes. Including the current behavior, I love your options(Default, English, Same as title) for :topic_slug.
No. I don’t want to customize all the URLs topic by topic. (I don’t like it either.)
What I want is:
Admin choose URL structure for topic in site setting.
Then all the new topics start to be generated with the URL logic Admin chose.
Is it clear now?
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I don’t think this request makes sense… what is really being asked for is control over whether the slug is ASCII or not, or even a custom slug.
