Better way to whitelist non-ascii characters (Asian characters) in config.php

[gideonso]

For now, if a site needs non ascii page name, there are two setting needed to be set:

1. $config->pageNameCharset = "UTF8"

This is OK.

2. $config->pageNameWhitelist = "A very long Chinese Character List"

It is very hard to put all the Chinese character there.

If there is another way to whitelist all the non-ascii character would be a big plus to ProcessWire multi-language support.

Related forum thread: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/12776-pw-3012-support-for-extended-utf8-page-namesurls/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-146652

[gideonso]

This can be done by leave $config->pageNameWhitelist = "". I close this request.

[openidauthority]

I propose that $config->pageNameWhitelist = "" should disable the whitelist, and use only the internal blacklist.

To make this happen, another condition would need to be added to the sanitizer, right after checking the blacklist:

} else if($whitelist === false) {
  // whitelist is disable, allow everything that is not blacklisted

https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/master/wire/core/Sanitizer.php#L843

[ryancramerdesign]

@openidauthority Thanks, that makes sense to me, I have added it.

[matjazpotocnik]

@gideonso, can you close this issue if you are happy with Ryan's fix?

[gideonso]

It is good to me. Thanks a lot.