[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10792: Forward Slashes convert to hyphens in post slugs

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#10792: Forward Slashes convert to hyphens in post slugs
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 Reporter:  alxndr                      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  low                         |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Formatting                  |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  minor                       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by corvidism):

 Replying to [comment:19 miqrogroove]:
 > To move this forward, let's see some tests, and let's make sure multiple
 slashes or spaces never convert into multiple hyphens.  I'm in favor of
 jtsternberg's idea to convert ampersand to a hypen rather than to strip,
 assuming we are not dealing with HTML encoded strings.
 Okay, lets see.
 I tried to apply the jtsternberg's patch, but that failed: there were some
 other changes made to `formatting.php` since then and the patched file
 doesn't even pass the current unit tests.
 I did, however, get to work the earlier patch by GhostToast, the one that
 only adds the "forward slash to dash" functionality. I wrote a bunch of
 unit tests for multiple slashes and positions, so it seems to be safe.
 So... what now?
 IMO replacing "&" to "-and-" or "&c." to "-etc-" is wrong, because it
 ignores languages other then English. Should we replace it with a dash,
 too?

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