Capitalized Cyrillic letters stripped out: a Sanitizer::translate bug?

[Valery]

Hello, everyone.

I am building a web site for Cyrillic-reading audience. I wanted to convert Cyrillic user names into ASCII and it seems I found a problem.

Capitalized Cyrillic letters are stripped out after Sanitizer::translate. E.g. "Иван" becomes "van".

There's a workaround, however:

$sanitizer->pageName(mb_strtolower($text), Sanitizer::translate); 

This problem also impacts page name translations to ASCII, so whenever I create a page from the Admin backend, I have to get back after saving, and correct the page name. Here I cannot use the above workaround because I can damage the PW core (which is the last thing one would like to do).

I am posting this for any other developers working with Cyrillic, and maybe for Ryan to look at this issue

Thanks!

[ryan]

$sanitizer->pageName(mb_strtolower($text), Sanitizer::translate);

The mb_strtolower($text) isn't necessary in the above line, as when you specify Sanitizer::translate, that's already the first thing it does in the pageName function. 

This problem also impacts page name translations to ASCII, so whenever I create a page from the Admin backend, I have to get back after saving, and correct the page name. Here I cannot use the above workaround because I can damage the PW core (which is the last thing one would like to do).

Take a look at the module settings in Modules > Inputfield > Page Name -- from here you can specify your own translation table for how characters should be translated. Is this what you are looking for, or something different?

[Valery]

Thanks, Ryan! That was exactly what was needed--and now I know what the little gear sign next to a module name is for