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slugify with transliteration

Author:
jezdez
Posted:
November 26, 2010
Language:
Python
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1 (after 1 ratings)

This slugify correctly transliterates special characters using the translitcodec package from PyPI.

Make sure you've installed http://pypi.python.org/pypi/translitcodec/ before using this.

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import re
import translitcodec # needed to install it

from django.template import Library
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

register = Library()

PUNCT_RE = re.compile(r'[\t !"#$%&\'()*\-/<=>?@\[\\\]^_`{|},.]+')


@stringfilter
def slugify(value, delim=u'-'):
    """
    Generates an ASCII-only slug.
    
    Borrowed from http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/5/
    """
    result = []
    for word in PUNCT_RE.split(value.lower()):
        word = word.encode('translit/long')
        if word:
            result.append(word)
    return mark_safe(unicode(delim.join(result)))
slugify.is_safe = True

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