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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Special characters are used in friendly URLs

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Rita Schaff

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Issue

  • Special characters, e.g. åäö are shown in friendly URLs, instead of showing the ASCII version.
  • Example: page is titled new page åäö becomes
    /new-page-åäö instead of /new-page-aao

Environment

  • DXP 7.0+

Resolution

  • This is the currently intended behavior, made by LPS-65233, to support multilingual character usage (in Unicode) for friendly URLs, and there is no option to configure it. There is an open Feature Request you can track: LPS-78008.

  • f you need an immediate resolution, you should consider custom development to implement your own business logic regarding normalization/transliteration. If you need help regarding this, kindly ask your Liferay contact person for further information.

Additional Information

  • At the time of writing, there is a bug: LPS-121817 that is blocking this customization.

  • So your options are:

    • Wait for the bug to be resolved, or

    • Use the workaround:

      • Setting its custom implementation directly in FriendlyURLNormalizerUtil by using the method com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.FriendlyURLNormalizerUtil.setFriendlyURLNormalizer(FriendlyURLNormalizer)

      • Or Overriding the default implementation with an Ext plugin like explained in here: Extending Core Classes Using Spring with Ext Plugins.

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