How to create slugs in arabic characters in Django?

Question

I am wondering how to make slugs out of Arabic/Persian strings in django? What I am trying to achieve is to create slugs like:

این-یک-تیتر-است

out of این یک تیتر است

That is, all spaces, commas and parentheses need to be converted to hyphens.

Answer 1

Alright, thanks python's excellent string library, turned out to be easier than what I thought. Just need to define a function like this:

def slugify(str):
    str = str.replace(" ", "-")
    str = str.replace(",", "-")
    str = str.replace("(", "-")
    str = str.replace(")", "")
    str = str.replace("؟", "")
    return str

Then in your model's class you should have a function like:

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self.slug = slugify(self.title)

Note: This line should be present at the beginign of the module.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

otherwise you may get an error like:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ...