Slug in Chinese title

[shavenking]

Hi

Post's slug is generated by str_slug, which is a problem when users have Chinese title. Is there any idea to solve it?

[austintoddj]

@shavenking Thanks for bringing this up. Let me dig into this and get back to you as soon as I know more about how to implement a solution.

[padarom]

I only know some Japanese, but when looking at other packages for Chinese, this looks like something that could work as a replacement: https://github.com/lokielse/laravel-pinyin

In fact, every language that doesn't use Latin has problems with slugs. Not all of them are too common obviously, but this page alone lists 23 different alphabets. So when adding a way to solve this automatically for Chinese, the same probably has to be done for other alphabets (like Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, ...).

The most fool-proof way (though not the cleanest considering UX) is probably to suggest a slug from the title, but give the user the possibility to override this.

[austintoddj]

Good thought @padarom. I'll take a look into this package and see what we can do to get this into a release.

[austintoddj]

Let's go with the solution @padarom suggested. Letting a user change the slug of the post should fix this bug. I'll close this out and open a new feature issue.