Not a bug Include content title in URLs: XenForo 2.3 removes multiplication sign unicode character "×" (U+00D7) instead of converting it to an "x" letter

[Steffen]

Affected version

2.3.2

This is about the setting "Include content title in URLs": XenForo 2.2 turned the multiplication sign "×" (U+00D7) into an "x" letter. XenForo 2.3 removes them (the transliterator seems to convert them into an asterisk which then get removed). IMHO the behaviour of XenForo 2.2 made more sense and if it's easy to get it back then I'd be all for it.

 

[Jeremy P]

Testing on 2.2, it seems that × was actually not transliterated at all. The transliteration behavior in 2.3 may be subtly different from 2.2 in a handful of ways, but we aren't likely to consider (m)any of them bugs since it's standards-based. Given other ASCII (and unicode) arithmetic symbols are stripped/converted, and that we use hyphens as a word separator, I'm not sure the former behavior was especially consistent.