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slugify replaces Tamil vowel marks with hyphen #7973
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Hi @deepestblue On a side-note, even if the patch were to get accepted, it may not get backported to Jekyll 3.8 (the current version is Jekyll 4.0.0) |
@ashmaroli I don't have jekyll 4.0.0, and not being a Ruby expert, am not comfortable trying to parallel install both 4.0.0 and 3.8.5 :-( I'm guessing it's not useful to send out a patch against 3.8.5. |
Clarifications:
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👋 @josh-works and I are going to take a stab at this in the next week or so |
Resolved via #8167 |
github-pages
bundle exec jekyll doctor
to check my configurationMy Environment
jekyll
github-pages
Expected Behaviour
I had a post with a Unicode Tamil file-name (
மல்லிப்பூ வகைகள்.md
). I expected the generated permalink to include all the letters and combining marks, while converting spaces to hyphens. Specifically, I expected the generated file-name to beமல்லிப்பூ-வகைகள்.html
.Current Behaviour
Instead, it generated something like
மல-லிப-பூ-வகைகள.html
, breaking up words in unexpected places.I looked at the code, and in
jekyll-3.8.5/lib/jekyll/utils.rb
, I foundreplace_character_sequence_with_hyphen
which replaces/[^[:alnum:]._~!$&'()+,;=@]+/
with-
. The problem is that there many Unicode letter/mark codepoints that don't matchalnum
: in my specific case,U+0BCD
. It turns out that the Alphabetic Unicode property only applies to some of what we'd want to consider Letters/Marks.Instead, the recommendation I got on SO was to use Unicode categories. My suggested fix would be to change the Regex to match
/[^\p{M}\p{L}\p{Nd}._~!$&'()+,;=@]+/
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