[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23907: Scandinavian ligatures transcribed wrong in remove_accents()

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#23907: Scandinavian ligatures transcribed wrong in remove_accents()
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 Reporter:  dnusim               |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  I18N                 |     Version:  3.6
 Severity:  minor                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 3.7-early  |
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Comment (by tlamedia):

 If you do a search in Bing.dk that contains æ,ø or å Bing will match ae,
 oe and aa in the URL and emphasize with a bold font. So if you search for
 æblegrød Bing will look for aeblegroed in the url and emphasize it with a
 bold font in the result page. Google only matces å to aa in the result
 page.

 Keyword match in the URL counts as 1% in the Google algorithm and even
 though it's not a lot, best SEO practice is to rewrite to ae, oe, aa. I
 think all Danish SEO's would agree that it's best to use ae, oe, aa.

 I doubt that there is a transcription that will make all Scandinavians
 happy and I suggest that we make different transcriptions based on the
 WPLANG constant. We can either do that by implementing a hook in the
 beginning of the remove_accents function that can be used by plugins, or
 instert a simple check for WPLANG=='da_DK' and transcripe æ,ø,å if we are
 on a Danish site.

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