Non-English characters in keywords not working

westis

Hi,

I asked about this quite some time ago and it seems like it's still not working. As Swedish is my first language I use quite a lot of non-English characters in keywords. But it seems like Smugmug doesn't accept those, or at least it removes them when displaying the keywords.

This is so both when uploading photos and when adding keywords in Smugmug.

Is there any update to be expected to have this working for all us who use another language than English?

Thanks!

/Daniel

habanr

westis wrote:

I asked about this quite some time ago and it seems like it's still not working. As Swedish is my first language I use quite a lot of non-English characters in keywords. But it seems like Smugmug doesn't accept those, or at least it removes them when displaying the keywords.
/Daniel

I have the similar problem with Czech characters with accents in category names. Simply your site refuses the category names that contain accented characters e.g. ěščřž ...
Are you going to make your site really international and correct this in the near future?

rainforest1155

Hi,

Our engineers will be looking into making this possible in the future, but I can't tell you if or when you'll be able to use non-english characters in keywords or categories. We have a very long list of things we would like to integrate on SmugMug, but our team can just concentrate on a few projects at a time.

Gallery names, gallery desctiptions and captions should place no problem in the usage of non-english characters.

All the best,
Sebastian

Andy

And fwiw, the reason they are not there is that these characters are part of the URLs too, so that needs to be engineered.

westis

Andy wrote:

And fwiw, the reason they are not there is that these characters are part of the URLs too, so that needs to be engineered.

Isn't this easily accomplished with regex? I work a bit with a CMS called CMS Made Simple and there URLs are created automatically from the page title. If the page title includes non-English characters they are converted to the corresponding English character (åä > a, ö > o etc.).

But I sure do respect that there are many items on the todo list that are also important! This, however, is the only thing keeping me (and most likely other international users as well) from using Smugmug more extensively.