Rails friendly id with non-Latin characters

Question

I have a model which I use its friendly id as slug:

extend FriendlyId
friendly_id :slug_candidates, :use => :scoped, :scope => :account

def slug_candi         


        

Answer 1

There's a Rails API method for that transliterate

Example use:

transliterate('Ãrøskøbing')
# => "AEroskobing"

By default it only supports latin-based languages and Russian but you should be able to find rules for other alphabets as well (as explained in the linked doc)

EDIT
To achieve the same behaviour as wordpress you can simply use url encoding, as in example below

URI::encode('שלום') => "%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D"