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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Acans on March 13, 2010, 04:13:51 AM

Title: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Acans on March 13, 2010, 04:13:51 AM
http://www.simpledesk.net/community/profile/945c9459511109-40/ when my name is set to α¢αηѕ
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Gruffen on March 13, 2010, 08:29:01 AM
Yeah, you have a funky character in there and SSEF just replaces all the characters with numeric code equivalents, rather than giving you a mismash of characters.
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Acans on March 13, 2010, 08:44:32 AM
Love being special :P
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Gruffen on March 13, 2010, 08:47:26 AM
Everyone's special, just some are more special (and others more speshal) than others.
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Acans on March 13, 2010, 08:57:05 AM
Quote from: Arantor on March 13, 2010, 08:47:26 AM
(and others more speshal)

Had to sound that one out lol :)
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Cleo on March 13, 2010, 09:59:04 AM
All it would take is a few lines of code to make it appear as "acans" (without the special UTF8 symbols). This is what I use, and it works as expected (replaces special accented characters, so '¢' would appear as 'c'):

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<?phpsetlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.utf8');$string = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);?>


Maybe someone should tell the mod author. Or maybe we should disable SSEF. The latter seems the obvious choice, really.
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Senkusha on March 13, 2010, 03:13:36 PM
Dumb question:  What is SimpleSEF anyway?  What's it do?
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Gruffen on March 13, 2010, 03:18:08 PM
SimpleSEF rewrites all the URLs, like Pretty URLs does, except that it's lighter and more efficient.

Like Pretty URLs though it has caused its share of issues...

Doesn't have any SEO benefit but it looks nicer and may provide improved clickthrough.
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: SleePy on March 13, 2010, 10:17:45 PM
/me looks around and laughs..
Title: Re: SimpleSEF Likes my name
Post by: Gruffen on March 13, 2010, 10:24:48 PM
Hahahahaha
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