As a business user I want to use multilingual site URL

• Type: Epic
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: SEO, WCM
• Labels:
  • DXPJPLOCAL
• Flagged:
  Impediment
• Epic Status: Done

Goal:

• Localize friendly urls for all languages.

Users

• Business users like content creators
• Final users

Benefits

• Better SEO: The URL and the content of the page will always be in the same language
• Easier to memorize or to find in bookmarks
• Easier to understand for the final user

Description

Currently we can write friendly URLs in ASCII languages. We don't support other languages like Japanese (Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana) or Chinese or Arab.

In the past browsers have this limitations but they have evolved and now support non-ASCII characters. You can see an introduction to this issue at REF1

The main goal of this story is to remove this constraints from Liferay.

References

• REF1 An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/

How friendly URLs works at the moment:

1 - The Friendly URL is first normalized so only ascii characters are left
2 - It accepts lowercase characters from a to z and digits from 0 to 9
3 - All uppercase characters from A to Z are transformed to lowercase
4 - One can specify slashes ("/") or periods (".") depending on the boolean parameter "periodsAndSlashes"
5 - All other sequence of characters not mentioned before are ignored and replaced by a dash ("-")

Examples:

/período --> /periodo (step 1 will transform í to i)
/PeRíoDo --> /periodo (step 1 will transform í to i and step 3 will transform to lowercase)
/PeRioD0 --> /period0 (step 3 will transform to lowercase and digit at the end is left since it's allowed)
/日r本r刀 --> /-r-r- (step 5 will replace non ascii characters to dashes)
/日本rr刀 --> /-rr- (step 5 will replace a continuos sequence of non ascii characters to one dash)

How do we require friendly URLs to works from now on:

1 - The Friendly URL is first normalized so only ascii characters are left Accepts the Unicode characters
2 - It accepts lowercase characters from a to z and digits from 0 to 9
3 - All uppercase characters from A to Z are transformed to lowercase
4 - One can specify slashes ("/") or periods (".") depending on the boolean parameter "periodsAndSlashes"
5 - All other sequence of characters not mentioned before are ignored and replaced by a dash ("")

Examples:

/período --> /período 
/PeRíoDo --> /período 
/PeRioD0 --> /period0 
/日r本r刀 --> /日r本r刀 
/日本rr刀 --> /日本rr刀