Joomla removes apostrophe in article's titles

[Frenchbiz2023]

Hello,

Since this summer I have noticed Joomla is removing apostrophe in the alias field.

For Example before for an article title like L'hôtel est beau the generated alias was l-hotel-est-beau
Now for the same title the generated alias is lhotel-est-beau.

How can I do to make joomla generates the alias exactly like before replacing ' with-?

It's very strange that a system like joomla is changing the rules all the time...

[gws]

Add the alias you want manually.

[Frenchbiz2023]

@gws : yes but it's not practical. I would like to find an automated solution and understand why it changed since this summer... Before the apostrophe was always replaced by a -

[gws]

Just a guess, ' is used as an escape character in php?

[ceford]

Aliases may only consist of lower case characters and dashes: https://docs.joomla.org/Alias

Anything else in the title is converted to a dash in the alias.

[gws]

That would appear to not be happening, surely it should convert the ' to a - as it used to? I don't know.

[Webdongle]

Aliases may only consist of lower case characters and dashes: https://docs.joomla.org/Alias

Anything else in the title is converted to a dash in the alias.

Yes he knows that but that is not the issue. The issue is the the ' was replaced with a - but now it runs the l and the h together.
i.e.
l'h used to change to l-h now it changes to lh

[mtgg]

Apostrophe is not a "legal" character in Joomla URLs. You can use apostrophes as "escape" characters; I suspect they are used to attempt some kinds of hacking but I don't know.

... but that is not the issue. The issue is the the ' was replaced with a - but now it runs the l and the h together

Interesting: in Joomla 3, apostrophes were replaced by hyphens; in Joomla 4.4.4 and 5.1.0, apostrophes are stripped out. Perhaps someone can find out when/why the developers changed this (not that it matters much however it's done these days)?

[Webdongle]

A ggle search

Code: Select all

site:https://issues.joomla.org/ title alias

found
https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/35856
Which lead to
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/32924

[mtgg]

Thanks. It was an intentional change.