Chinese support

[dmyers]

Is there a way to get Chinese characters to work?

[florianeckerstorfer]

You just need to add the corresponding rules.

[danielantelo]

would be interested in this too, how would you go about it? @dmyers did you manage it?

[florianeckerstorfer]

I have little to no knowledge about Chinese, but as far as I understand that Chinese doesn't really have what we call letters. That is, you cannot really transliterate a Chinese symbol into an ASCII character (or a series of characters), because Chinese characters are basically words (or at least part of words). Again I'm not 100% sure.

Take a look at FaSlugify (which seems to be based on this library for Farsi/Persian. This project includes another project called finglify which translates a Persian/Farsi word into latin characters. It includes a massive list of words. I guess that a Slugify for Chinese would also need such a list.

[zoransa]

I have solved it kind of...

if (!function_exists('slugify')) {

/**
 * Slugify string for urls
 * @param $str
 * @param string $separator
 * @param string $locale
 * @param bool $lowercase
 * @return string
 */
function slugify($str, $separator = "-", $locale = 'en', $lowercase = false)
{
    if (in_array($locale, ['zh'])) {
        $str = transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin', $str);
    }

    $slugify = new Slugify(null, array('lowercase' => $lowercase));

    $slugify->addRules(
        [
            'א' => '',
            'ב' => 'v',
            'ב' => 'b',
            'ג' => 'g',
            'ג׳' => 'j',
            'ד' => 'd',
            'ד׳' => 'dh',
            'ה' => 'h',
            'ו' => 'v',
            'ז' => 'z',
            'ז׳' => 'zh',
            'ח' => 'h',
            'ט' => 't',
            'י' => 'y',
            'כ' => 'k',
            'ך' => 'kh',
            'ל' => 'l',
            'מ' => 'm',
            'ם' => 'm',
            'נ' => 'n',
            'ן' => 'n',
            'ס' => 's',
            'ע' => '',
            'פ' => 'f',
            'ף' => 'f',
            'צ' => 'ts',
            'ץ' => 'ts',
            'ץ׳' => 'tsh',
            'ק' => 'k',
            'ר' => 'r',
            'ש' => 's',
            'ת' => 't'
        ]
    );
    return $slugify->slugify($str, $separator);
}
}

This adds rules for Hebrew and in case of Chinese it does transliterate but you have to send 'zh' $locale flag to the function.

Also update your composer and add:

     "require": {
           "ext-intl": "*",

[0xuhe]

Check it on php manul

<?php 
preg_match("/\p{Han}+/u", 'test中文', $result); 
var_dump($result);

[Dimimo]

Interesting question for I will sooner or later need this. After some research I have found this solution: http://pastebin.com/zZfci0Dz. The URL won't look nice but it is re-translatable from UTF-8 to Chinese without a loss.

There are easier solutions but they are not reliable and even dangerous. Read this first reply to understand why: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5998607/conversion-from-simplified-to-traditional-chinese. You could run into problems. Something better to avoid as a web-designer. Use numbered url's instead.

[rny]

        $slugify = new \Cocur\Slugify\Slugify();
        echo $slugify->slugify('中文');

echo empty, should be unchanged string '中文'.

[picks44]

+1 for the addition of the Chinese/pinyin

[zoransa]

In order to make it Chinese/pinyin just modify Chinese string with

$str = transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin', $str);

don't forget php requires "ext-intl": "*",

[SuN-80]

I suppose it could be easy to implement using a class like this as an addon: https://github.com/jifei/Pinyin/blob/master/Pinyin.php

[SuN-80]

Added Chinese support (pinyin): #158

[hifall]

#158 PR still not approved -- any progress? Thanks!

[SuN-80]

I don't know why checks are not successful, but it works: https://getsongbpm.com/artist/zhoujie/3vJn
Unless someone can tell me what's wrong with conflicting files, you'll have to add Chinese rules manually and generate your own set of rules (like i did in the example above) using #158 .

[florianeckerstorfer]

Fixed by #195