About Spanish language and semantics URLs

Hi,

I am interested on doing the Spanish translation of the new version of Burning Board. Until now I have been testing the betas and analyzing the new features. I’m waiting for a stable version to translate it completely.

When I was checking the URLs, I have seen that the new version uses semantic URLs. This is great, but I think I should do some remarks related to the Spanish in the URLs.

In Spanish exclamation and question marks are used for both, for opening and for closing phrases. I have realized that closing marks (? !) are omitted in URLs, but it doesn’t happen the same with opening marks (¿ ¡)

In Spanish there is the Ñ letter, which is an N with a symbol called “virgulilla” on the top. Most of webs in Spanish use to transform Ñ in N in order to make it easier to remember and write.

Stress sign ( ´ ) and diaeresis sign ( ¨ ) are used a lot in Spanish. I have seen that currently these signs are not omitted in the URLs. They use to be omitted in the URLs of Spanish web, although some webs like Wikipedia don´t do it. In my humble opinion is better to omit them in order to have URLs “friendlier” for the user.

It looks “bad” copying a URL and having it full of symbols. (Invented example: http://beta.woltlab.com/index.…ejempl%C3%B6-de-%C3%BCrl/ VS http://beta.woltlab.com/index.php/Thread/1-ejemplo-de-url/)

I hope that you will take into consideration these remarks y to can contribute to make the new version better.

Best regards.

This is my personal settings for the URL replacements in Spanish. I have relied on Wordpress settings. I share it because it can be useful to others.

¡=
!=
¿=
?=
º=o
ª=a
€=e
@=
Ç=C
ç=c
“=
”=
‘=
’=
"=
'=
¨=
´=
`=
·=
«=
»=
ñ=n
Ñ=N
á=a
Á=A
à=a
À=A
ä=a
Ä=A
â=a
Â=a
é=e
É=E
è=e
È=E
ë=e
Ë=E
ê=e
Ê=E
í=i
Í=I
ì=i
Ì=I
ï=i
Ï=I
î=i
Î=I
ó=o
Ó=O
ò=o
Ò=O
ö=o
Ö=O
ô=o
Ô=O
ú=u
Ú=U
ù=u
Ù=U
ü=u
Ü=U
û=u
Û=U
…=
—=

Last updated: 23.02.2015