Allow special character in the URL key - Bring it Back!

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Sandra

• May 12, 2017 23:03

Hi there,

Recently, you did some changes to the URL keys - removed all accented vowels which will lead to SEO issues for some languages.

cld-y-pls-brng-bck-th-spcl-chrctrs-n-th-RL-kys ?

Just imagine those missing letters were accented vowels.

Probably you can read it, but do you think Google can too for SEO purposes?

In my opinion, it’s really important to have this feature back for those languages who do have accented vowels, e.g. French.

The - é - should be substitute by  - e - and not be ignored in order to have SEO-Friendly URL keys otherwise the keywords in it will have no meaning to Google at all and/or lead to wrong ones.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Sandra

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  Zoey

  • May 15, 2017 16:48

  Hi Sandra,

  You can try this:

  • Products>Settings>Catalog Settings>“Restrict special chars in product url keys”
  • change to NO

  But this will allow ALL special characters which could break your URL if not set properly when creating new products.

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  Sandra

  • May 15, 2017 19:50

  Hi Eric,

   

  Thank you for bringing it back! Just tried it out and the URL Key doesn't look like it should.

  Here's just an example:

  Name is: Penderie à roulettes avec 10 bras inclinés et barre intermédiaire

  URL key gets: penderie-%c3%a0-roulettes-avec-10-bras-inclin%c3%a9s-et-barre-interm%c3%a9diaire

  instead of: penderie-a-roulettes-avec-10-bras-inclines-et-barre-intermediaire

  Attached the French Accented vowels - last column.

  Kind regards,

  Sandra

  

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