Issue 94: why the chanel name must be english?
Status:  Accepted
Owner:
Reported by myyako...@gmail.com, Apr 20, 2009
the channel name must be English!

if I wang to built a channel  name by chinese~,there will be a error!

i hope you can change it!


Apr 20, 2009
Project Member #1 adewale
Can you add an example of a non-english channel name that you would like to be supported?
Status: Accepted
May 7, 2009
Project Member #2 adewale
One way to handle the performance impact of changing the regex used to identify
channels would be to make a flag in settings.py: UNICODE_CHANNEL_NAMES

By default it would use an ASCII regular expression but if the flag were set then we
could use a more expensive test that handled Unicode channel names. This would
require someone to work out what a valid set of Unicode channel names would look
like. This would also have to take into account the fact that a channel name must
still result in a valid url.
May 18, 2009
Project Member #3 andyster
this could be a bit of a tricky one to solve as I'm not sure how many things down the
chain will be affected by non-ascii channel names, still it seems like something we
should support
Owner: andyster
Labels: Size-Medium
Dec 28, 2009
#4 kugutsu...@gmail.com
What about translating the channel name to Punycode. It is used already for  the 
internationalized domain names.

For example: 例子.测试/ is translated to: http://xn--fsqu00a.xn--0zwm56d/

the xn- prefix let's you know it is an international domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punicode