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yheuhtozr • Edited

I totally agree with the original approaches mentioned in the issue, namely:

  • Make article's slug configurable apart from its title
  • Accept article's slug in %-encoded Unicode characters

I think that we better have both.

For implementation details, some users might prefer their letters converted into Roman alphabet, where other dislike it (reliability of automatic alphabetic transliteration varies a lot across languages). So, while we should allow users to customize their slug, we can set an ASCII transcriber defaulted for limited languages, such as this. (Note: This sentence assumes that the author can designate the language of a post. Transliteration purely based on script without language information would be even less ideal.)