### Author:  [@jtsagata](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtsagata)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 19:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/1 "2019-04-21T19:07:14Z")
I like to have the Greek language url for articles in latin. I have found the file
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that seems that can do the job. Can i just put it under ‘config/locales/transliterate.el.yml’ or there is more to do?
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 19:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/2 "2019-04-21T19:27:32Z")
We currently support unicode slugs under the setting `slug generation method`. Won’t enabling that be better for Greek support?
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### Author:  [@jtsagata](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtsagata)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 19:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/3 "2019-04-21T19:37:23Z")
No i need transliteration. For example a URL like this
> **[Laptop με 30 ευρώ?!](https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-me-30-eyrw/83/19)**
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> καλημερα. Απο που αγορασες το λαπ τοπ?
gives a URL like this `%CE%BC%CE%B5-30-%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%8E/83/19` where this is the greek `με 30 ευρώ` I want a URL like `laptop-me-30-euro`.
Before years i had create a gem to do exactly this [alexandria | RubyGems.org | your community gem host](https://rubygems.org/gems/alexandria), but i have lots of years to do Ruby codding and now it is obsolete. I have also used the friendly\_id gem, but that was also years ago
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 21:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/4 "2019-04-21T21:15:47Z")
I wonder if we should add new options here:
- Transliteration: `https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-me-30-euro/83/18`
- Unicode: `https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-με-30-ευρώ/83/18`
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### Author:  [@jtsagata](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtsagata)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 21:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/5 "2019-04-21T21:43:03Z")
For some reason any unicode character in URL is translated like `%CE%BC%CE%B5`. You see the url in the browser as unicode text, and when you try copy it, you get it in encoded form.
Transliteration ( [Transliteration - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration)) is a way to have nice looking copy-able urls.
It will be nice to have that option, so what Hebrew, Chinese, German, Korean people believe ?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [21 april 2019 om 22:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/6 "2019-04-21T22:03:08Z")
> [@jtsagata](#):
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> For some reason any unicode character in URL is translated like `%CE%BC%CE%B5` . You see the url in the browser as unicode text, and when you try copy it, you get it in encoded form.
That’s because it’s URL encoded. We could use plain unicode like [https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-με-30-ευρώ/83/18](https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-%CE%BC%CE%B5-30-%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%8E/83/18) which you can click and it works.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [22 april 2019 om 18:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/7 "2019-04-22T18:59:01Z")
Discourse supports transliteration rules. You can create a pull request and add something similar to [transliterate.ru.yml](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/config/locales/transliterate.ru.yml) for Greek.
> [@Falco](#):
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> I wonder if we should add new options here:
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> - Unicode: `https://linux-user.gr/t/laptop-με-30-ευρώ/83/18`
I don’t think this will work. It highly depends on the browser if you get the encoded URL or not. See
[URL Percent Encoding and Unicode (2010)](http://xahlee.info/js/url_encoding_unicode.html). Also, there was an issue with share dialog ([Sharing link on Twitter doesn't work for encoded slugs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-on-twitter-doesnt-work-for-encoded-slugs/93758)) that prompted us to always use encoded URLs.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [22 april 2019 om 19:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/8 "2019-04-22T19:06:32Z")
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Also, there was an issue with share dialog ([Sharing link on Twitter doesn’t work for encoded slugs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-on-twitter-doesnt-work-for-encoded-slugs/93758)) that prompted us to always use encoded URLs.
Damn Twitter.
I just tried with the IRI [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ῥόδος](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BF%AC%CF%8C%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82) and it works on:
- Discourse
- Facebook
- Whatsapp
- Telegram
- Mattermost
Such a shame.
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### Author:  [@jtsagata](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtsagata)
#### Post date: [22 april 2019 om 19:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/9 "2019-04-22T19:08:03Z")
The **[rails-i18n](https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n)** gem have some good Greek transliteration [rules](https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/master/rails/transliteration/el.yml). Discourse doesn’t use that standard gem?
My original question was if i copy that file to discourse what else is need it, in order to activate it.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [22 april 2019 om 19:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/10 "2019-04-22T19:16:48Z")
We don’t use the rails-i18n gem. Adding that file will be enough.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [22 mei 2019 om 19:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/greek-language-url-transliteration/115599/11 "2019-05-22T19:27:32Z")
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