Url rewriting ° & ¤ issue (Page 2 of 2)

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

SuperMAG: I just gave you 3 Matt Cutts blog posts that support hyphens over underscores. What more do you want?

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

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.

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.

Solovey: Your hostile attitude isn't going to get you far.
You suggested percent encoding or purely numeric schemes. Rickard pointed out that we have several purely numeric schemes, that your suggestion for percent encoding was more difficult than it appeared, and that it would be simple for you or someone else to write an extension that takes advantage of your idea. That, as far as I can see, is the only response from a developer directed toward you in this topic. As Jérémie said, calling us "closed minded and xenophobic" is a great way to get us to not listen to your points. We do not appreciate being insulted just because we disagree with something you say.
We are willing to listen to all suggestions given to us. Where they make sense to implement in the core, they will be implemented in the core. Where they make more sense as an extension, we will suggest that they be implemented that way.
Now then, if you can come up with a way to implement your suggestion (or parts thereof) in a reasonable fashion, it will certainly be considered. However, at this point, all we have in this topic is a lot of hot air from both sides. I'd like everyone to cool it and only post if they have something constructive to add.