Arabic group URLs for group slugs not always work

[Menelik Seth]

Arabic group URL slugs are a hit and miss. Single words seem to always work. URLs with spaces in them sometimes work, but I've come across one particular URL that returns a "Bad Request!" 400 error, whenever I try to create a group using it:

Some notices:

1. I set the database and the bp_bp_groups table collocation to cp1256_general_ci

2. the ‘name’ field in the wordpress database takes the Arabic text just fine. For example:

جامعة الملك عبد العزيز

3. the ‘slug’ field records seemingly random characters instead. For example:

%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%84%d9%83-%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%

4. I tried following this guide ​http://is.gd/dusori (Enableing Chinese, Arabic and Other High Unicode in WordPress Slugs

), but it didn’t work (ended up with 404 errors)

It's just the way the slug is stored in the database. I didn't change my database collation from whatever the default was. Per my screenshot, I don't receive any 404 errors (tested on trunk).

Could this be a duplicate of #880?

Menelik, if you create a new group with this data, does the same problem occur? (best to delete the old group first, if you have a testing server). Are you on BP 1.2.8?

immediately after group creation

Sorry for the late reply guys,

Firstly thank you for the replies. Yes, I'm on BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1.2

What I've done since:

I've dropped the database via PHPMyAdmin, and created a new one. Re-Installed WP and re-activated BP. I'm using a locally hosted XAMPP installation. Let me know if you need additional info. I've attached error400.jpg note the address bar.

I can't recreate this on trunk, even when I switch to cp1256 and cp1256_general_ci. However, I could easily recreate this on a 1.2.8, even with the default collation. URL in the browser shows it was the issued which we fixed in #880. The fix is in trunk.

Hey DJPaul,

Thanks for looking into this. I'll head over to the svn and download trunk.