[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37086: Remove Middle Dot (U+00B7) from URL (for Catalan only?)

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#37086: Remove Middle Dot (U+00B7) from URL (for Catalan only?)
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 Reporter:  xavivars      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Formatting    |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 Currently, [remove_accents
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.5.2/src/wp-
 includes/formatting.php#L1132] converts all characters to an ASCII
 equivalent so it looks "nice" as a URLs without the need of escaping
 characters (and, thus, showing % as part of the links).

 However, the middle dot (U+00B7) is not removed. Middle dot is used in
 Catalan between two L (like this l·l).

 Quoting from wikipedia:
 > The flown dot (Catalan: punt volat) is used in Catalan between two Ls in
 cases where each belongs to a separate syllable, for example cel·la,
 "cell". This distinguishes such "geminate Ls" (ela geminada), which are
 pronounced [ɫː], from "double L" (doble ela), which are written without
 the flown dot and are pronounced [ʎ].

 On top of non being consistent (all other Catalan diacritics are removed),
 not removing this character has some side-effects, because there are some
 URL libraries that don't take it into account (like the one Twitter uses:
 see https://twitter.com/VilaWeb/status/738348674137399296).

 My proposal is to remove that char when it appears between two l.

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