I'm not sure the dev can write something for every possible scheme there is. And I'm not sure that it's possible to load every scheme together, to have a redirect "from whatever -> to the current scheme".

And on tope of that, there's the matter of extensions... some of them will add new URL.

Maybe the dev could handle the redirect from raw to the current scheme in the core, and an extenstion could on top of the later handle switching from one scheme to another?

about the dublicate urls ... the only good solution is to redirect ...

many of the forums will use different types of urls and when they change thier mind ... the old urls will still work ...

to solve that you need to redirect it like

if u have file based enebled then this will redirect to
http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2-sim ? -work.html
to the file based url
http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2.html

and if u have fancy url open
then this will redirect to
http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2.html
to the fancy based
http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2-sim ? -work.html

as well as folder and php urls will also redrict to the urls that are in selected in sittings ...
this will also solve the problem to all the ones who will convert thier forum from 1.2 to 1.3 and change urls will be redirected ...

thats all
thanks

I was going to answer point by point, especially with that amount of wrapping around my meaning, I even read again the appropriate RFC. Then, I saw that I'm closed minded and xenophobic, so I won't bother.

Yeah, and you just proved it.

Thank you, Jérémie, for taking the time to support internationalization and other languages in PunBB!

Thank you!

Just give up, Solovey. You won't get anything through these guys.

I run several dozen websites in different languages, and deal with these issues everyday, as they mean a lot to the bottom line.

The argument dashes vs. underscords is a sideshow to the real issue:

The anti-internationalization attitude of the developers of PunBB!

I've looked through numerous threads where people requesting changes for the benefit of other languages, that would make this a much better peice of software were shunned or shot down.

"There is only so much we can do for ... Chinese... etc." pretty much sums this up.

Unfortunately, that means that PunBB will need some extra modding and hacking before I can deploy it in a real multilingual environement. BECAUSE FEATURES THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED BY DEFAULT ARE NOT INCLUDED.

It should be noted that multiple links to the same content isn't really an issue unless more than one URL is used. This is a problem when migrating from one URL scheme to another, but that's it.

Which will be the case of nearly everyone when they update from 1.2 to 1.3.

Maybe you could do something like:

If a clean url scheme is used
And if current url is raw

Then process the raw url through the clean_url function
and send a HTTP permanent redirect header with the clean url pointer

With hooks in there, so that people could have extensions in there to do more redirect or whatever, if they want.

Will one conditional check (perhaps of a simple string, like "is the first word of the local part of the url ends with .php?" or whatever) slow things down that much?

Look at the urls inside it :

http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2-sim … -work.html
http://supermag.wsnw.net/1.3/topic2$2.html

this makes the urls dublicate

That's a bug.

We're considering ways to solve it with as little impact as possible.

It should be noted that multiple links to the same content isn't really an issue unless more than one URL is used. This is a problem when migrating from one URL scheme to another, but that's it.

http://www.mattcutts.com/
And if you took the time to actually read the article that was linked to by Solovey and the last entry which I quoted, you would see Google did NOT say that underscores are now word separators. Solovey's article was written by Stephan Spencer.
In other words, Matt Cutts is the one to listen to, not Stephan Spencer

i thought that the first article was came directly from google ... but i want wrong i guess ... but that confuezed me ... so i search my own in google ... most of them were saying dashes but they didnt have good proff ...

finnally i got an article that was very convincing and with example that proffed the dashes are sperators:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/ … kings-more

the example i used is the heading of this post:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=13244

first i searched this: The supposed "poison NULL byte vulnerability"
this is result:

then i searched this: The_supposed_"poison_NULL_byte_vulnerability"
this is result:

at last i searched this: The-supposed-"poison-NULL-byte-vulnerability"
this is result:

so thats it ... by the way do u want to why did choose that topic for example ... that reminded me of myself now

so thats ends it this disscussion i think ....

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there is other thing smarty .... about the dublicate urls you remember the post dont you

did u guys did any progress on that

Edit:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-pos … w-session/ | (search for the word hyphen)
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat- … -bloggers/