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This thread is dedicated to support of yvTransliterate plugin.

yvTransliterate is Transliteration plugin for Joomla! 1.5, and it's free. The plugin transliterates article aliases, that are used in Search engine optimization (SEO) for creation of Search engine friendly (SEF) slugs (URLs).
It takes into account "Content Language" of the article. And it may also be used by any other Joomla! extension to transliterate text strings. Language packs are supported: they contain transliterations for additional languages.

yvTransliterate doesn't require any hack to the code of Joomla!'s core: you simply have to install one plugin and as many yvTransliterateLanguagePacks, as you need.

This plugin is the result of the work, that was started in March 2007 (see the thread). I hoped, that this _real_ Transliteration functionality will be inserted in Joomla! 1.5 core,
but it's not there yet (see 'Language slugs transliteration').

On 2008-07-17 yvTransliterate has transliteration for Russian language only, and it has 'Language pack template', that may be easily adapted for new languages...
Now we'll see, how many people really need transliteration (I'm expecting new language translations
with transliteration for different languages).

yvTransliterate has open and simple interface, that uses special triggered event.

For more information about this extension, see yvTransliterate's Homepage and Joomla! Extension Directory.

Hi, all people, whose language has non-latin characters
I'm glad to announce, I've got several reports, that this plugin works as it says: in the forum and in private messages (see e.g. in Russian forum).
I saw in JoomlaCode, that people are downloading it, including "Language pack template" - 113 times (maybe, they were bots )
And, at last, during last two days, I received two new transliterations: for Czech and Ukrainian languages! Way to go, pals!

Great, Yvolk!

yvTransliterate v.1.1.0 was released.

1. Added another 'hook' into Joomla! core: parameter 'Extend JLanguage class'. Now yvTransliterate may transliterate not only aliases of Articles (or comments in a case of yvComment), but aliases of other elements of Joomla! site interface also: menu items, sections, categories... in fact, yvTransliterate works in every place, where Joomla! core called JLanguage::transliterate method.
Please note, that in this case yvTransliterate uses Language of current user as source Language for transliteration. So, for example, if you want Section alias to be transliterated according to Russian transliteration table, you have to log in to Administrator site (backend) in Russian language.
This feature works MUCH more effective under PHP5 (it creates proxy to the JLanguage object instead of creating (and populating...) second instance of JLanguage class.

2. Two new translations were added since previous release, see them at JoomlaCode:
Czech (Thanks to Muskwa).
Ukrainian (Thanks to Ary Group).

What exactly is the debug_transliteration_method parameter good for? Does it do something besides being displayed in the debug message?

No, the parameter "Transliteration name" it is for use in Debugging only. It may be good, if e.g. you created some additional transliteration (e.g. Transliteration name='Trans1') for your language and want to test it before using yvTransliterate API: it has this optional parameter:

I have found this plug-in wery usefull but I have ono sugestion.
Now yvTransliterate uses Language of current user as source Language for transliteration, but is it possible to language be fixed - for example Russian?
Many users are more familiar with english interface than their native. It would be wery usefull to define language for transliteration for entire site in parameters for plug-in.

Thanks,

I agree, this will be useful to add new option to the yvTransliterate:
---
"Default content language".
Default value is: "Current User's language", but you may explicitly select any available language from the list.
---
I will add this to the ToDo list...

Hi!
I often have Guillemets (angle quotes) « and » in my article titles. They are replaced accordingly by l and r
That's why Article name is «Hellow, world!» looks like article-name-is-lhellow-worldr

I had to add the following lines to my Russian and Ukrainian translating files
ru-RU.yvtransliterate.xml
and
uk-UA.yvtransliterate.xml
to trim the quotes

but I feel this is not the correct way. Even if it is, I think the plugin has to trim the quotes, not replace them by l and r.

Thanks a lot for the plugin!

What's new in v.1.2.0:
+ yvTranliterate code moved to SVN repository, see http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/yvtransliterate/scmsvn/
+ Debugging was greatly improved
+ 'Default content language' option was added. If the value of this option was not selected, the language defaults to current Language of User interface.

Hi! yvolk, I tried to install this plugin but it seems that I am doing it wrong. Could you please tell me how to intall it properly, I am a noob in Joomla & Php. I got this " Error! Could not find an XML setup file in the package."

I know this is a kind of dumb for me to ask this but "Is this will work on SEF, I had a russian language on my site and every time I turn on the SEF it is giving me Error 404.

Thanks.

Hi, I guess you tried to install "yvTransliterate.zip" - it's not installable indeed!
Please unzip it: it has yvTransliteratePluginX.XX.XXX.zip installable zip inside :-)
It looks like I've published wrong file at joomlacode... now I've published "unzipped" plugin file there instead (see yvTransliteratePlugin-1.02.000.zip file in JoomlaCode).

Thank you for report!