Hi Kevin

Yes the localink stuff is the way things work out of the box.

But could you ellaborate a bit more on your scenario? I'm not sure I get why it's important to you that the url contains £ etc. - Perhaps there is another way around it.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

/Jan

Hi Jan

It's a local government website which is a AA site, and it fails our accessibility checks if the urls in our anchors are not encoded, frequently this is caused by &'s in the url but as we transition over to Umbraco we are noticing it with our internal urls, we have some pretty crazy page names in there which contain special characters.

Does that answer your query?

Thanks

Kev

Hi Kevin

Hmm, we have some of the same requirements for danish sites and we have never failed at this...that sounds a bit odd to me.

Could you provide some examples of link text where this is happening? How do you render the content from the rich text editor?

Do you have a link to a site perhaps?

/Jan

Hi Jan

Sure, here is a link to a page on our website, if you check-out around line 409 you will see a link that has been rendered from the RTE (so {locallink}), note the link title has been encoded:

<a title="Invoices over &pound;500" href="/council-and-democracy/council-spending-and-budgets/payments-to-suppliers-where-the-invoiced-payments-are-greater-than-or-equal-to-£500/">Payments to suppliers where the invoiced payments are greater than or equal to &pound;500a>

Here is the page in question:

http://test.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-spending-and-budgets/

The failure we are getting reported on is the href, everything else is fine, I did notice that our navigation does indeed render the correctly encoded links, it's just the ones in the RTE.

Thanks

Kev

Hi Kevin

Hmm I see...ok, by default Umbraco should actually make sure that character newer makes it to the out-url...

I just ran a quick test on v7 where I had a page named "Let's make it £500 please". On another page I made a link to this page in the rte field and the out url was "lets-make-it-500-please".

But it should be possible to fix this in 6.1.6 as well.

Try going to /config/umbracoSetting.config and go to the <urlReplacing> section and add

<char org="£"></char>
<char org="&pound;"></char> 

Recycle your app pool and see if it works - it should! :)

Hope this helps.

/Jan

Hi Jan

I will give this a go first thing in the morning and get back to you.

Thanks very much for your help :-)

Kev

Hi Kevin

You're welcome.

Btw make sure that the site on your test-server is not indexed by setting up <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> for the entire site. Otherwise your client risks SEO issues with duplicate content.

Looking forward to hearing from you tomrrow.

/Jan

Will do, thanks for the tip :-)

Hi Jan

Morning!

I tried your change but it didn't work, like I say it does appear to work for my navigation links etc. it's just the RTE.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks

Kev

Hi Kevin

Hmm, that's odd...how about if you go to the page in Umbraco and delte the link from the rich text editor and isert it once again?

And you did remember to recycle the app pool after making the changes in the umbracoSettings.config?

Not that I think it matters but do you know what encoding are used for your templates? Is it UTF-8?

/Jan

Hi Jan

Yep recycled pool, even changed another setting to make sure it was picking up the changes.

We are using UTF-8.

Kev

Hi Kevin

Ok, do you mind sharing the part of your umbracoSettings.config that contains the rewrite stuff?

Did you try and pick the link again or even just save the page where the £ link is on? Coming to think about it this is probably needed as well since now the sign is saved in the XML cache.

/Jan

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