[wp-hackers] Plugin: Sanitize i18n (UTF-8) titles

[Tara Star]

Ryan Boren wrote:

> Hmmm, if we incorporate this into the core, what should the WordPress
> default be?   Escape accented Latin characters, or remove the accents?
> If we remove the accents, we lose information.  Most browsers display
> the escaped characters properly when you mouse over a link, so you are
> insulated a bit from the %HH ugliness.

as an accented character consumer, I would say, definitely:

é => e
à => a
etc.

my two centimes

Steph