Merge pull request #315 from winniehell/patch_urlify_translitcodec

Use translitcodec for urlify

gluon/validators.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import cgi
 import urllib
 import struct
 import decimal
-import unicodedata
 from cStringIO import StringIO
 from gluon.utils import simple_hash, web2py_uuid, DIGEST_ALG_BY_SIZE
 from gluon.dal import FieldVirtual, FieldMethod
@@ -2519,7 +2518,7 @@ def urlify(s, maxlen=80, keep_underscores=False):
     if isinstance(s, str):
         s = s.decode('utf-8')             # to unicode
     s = s.lower()                         # to lowercase
-    s = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s)  # normalize eg è => e, ñ => n
+    s = s.encode('translit/long')         # replace special characters
     s = s.encode('ascii', 'ignore')       # encode as ASCII
     s = re.sub('&\w+?;', '', s)           # strip html entities
     if keep_underscores: