Rename special chars to unicode chars, remove special chars in username

bl-kernel/functions.php

@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ function createUser($args) {
 
 	// Filter form fields
 	$tmp = array();
-	$tmp['username'] = $args['new_username'];
+	$tmp['username'] = Text::removeSpecialCharacters($args['new_username']);
 	$tmp['password'] = $args['new_password'];
 	$tmp['role']	 = $args['role'];
 	$tmp['email']	 = $args['email'];

bl-kernel/helpers/text.class.php

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 class Text {
 
-	private static $specialChars = array(
+	private static $unicodeChars = array(
 		// Latin
 		'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A', 'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'AE', 'Ç'=>'C',
 		'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E', 'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E', 'Ì'=>'I', 'Í'=>'I', 'Î'=>'I', 'Ï'=>'I',
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ class Text {
 		return str_replace(array_keys($replace), array_values($replace), $text);
 	}
 
+	public static function removeSpecialCharacters($string, $replace='')
+	{
+		return preg_replace("/[\/_|+:!@#$%^&*()'\"<>\\\`}{;=,?\[\]~. -]+/", $replace, $string);
+	}
+
 	// Convert unicode characters to utf-8 characters
 	// Characters that cannot be converted will be removed from the string
 	// This function can return an empty string
@@ -131,15 +136,15 @@ class Text {
 		if (EXTREME_FRIENDLY_URL) {
 			$string = self::lowercase($string);
 			$string = trim($string, $separator);
-			$string = preg_replace("/[\/_|+:!@#$%^&*()';=,?\[\]~. -]+/", $separator, $string);
+			$string = self::removeSpecialCharacters($string, $separator);
 			$string = trim($string, $separator);
 			return $string;
 		}
 
 		// Transliterate characters to ASCII
-		$specialCharsFromDictionary = $L->getSpecialChars();
+		$unicodeCharsFromDictionary = $L->getunicodeChars();
-		$string = str_replace(array_keys($specialCharsFromDictionary), $specialCharsFromDictionary, $string);
+		$string = str_replace(array_keys($unicodeCharsFromDictionary), $unicodeCharsFromDictionary, $string);
-		$string = str_replace(array_keys(self::$specialChars), self::$specialChars, $string);
+		$string = str_replace(array_keys(self::$unicodeChars), self::$unicodeChars, $string);
 
 		if (function_exists('iconv')) {
 			if (@iconv(CHARSET, 'ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $string)!==false) {

bl-kernel/language.class.php

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class Language extends dbJSON {
 	public $db;
 	public $currentLanguage;
 	public $dates;
-	public $specialChars;
+	public $unicodeChars;
 
 	function __construct($currentLanguage)
 	{
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class Language extends dbJSON {
 		$this->db = array();
 		$this->currentLanguage = $currentLanguage;
 		$this->dates = array();
-		$this->specialChars = array();
+		$this->unicodeChars = array();
 
 		// Load default language
 		$filename = PATH_LANGUAGES.DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_FILE;
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ class Language extends dbJSON {
 			unset($this->db['dates']);
 		}
 
-		// Special chars
+		// Unicode chars
-		if (isset($this->db['special-chars'])) {
+		if (isset($this->db['unicode-chars'])) {
-			$this->specialChars = $this->db['special-chars'];
+			$this->unicodeChars = $this->db['unicode-chars'];
-			unset($this->db['special-chars']);
+			unset($this->db['unicode-chars']);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ class Language extends dbJSON {
 		return $explode[0];
 	}
 
-
 	// Return the translation, if the translation doesn't exist returns the English translation
 	public function get($string)
 	{
@@ -147,8 +146,8 @@ class Language extends dbJSON {
 	}
 
 	// Returns array with all the special characters from this language
-	public function getSpecialChars()
+	public function getunicodeChars()
 	{
-		return $this->specialChars;
+		return $this->unicodeChars;
 	}
 }

bl-kernel/pages.class.php

@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ class Pages extends dbJSON {
 		global $L;
 
 		if (Text::isEmpty($text)) {
-			$text = 'empty';
+			$text = $L->g('empty');
 		}
 
 		if (Text::isEmpty($parent)) {
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ class Pages extends dbJSON {
 
 		// cleanURL can return empty string
 		if (Text::isEmpty($newKey)) {
-			$key = $L->g('empty');
+			$newKey = $L->g('empty');
 		}
 
 		if ($newKey!==$oldKey) {

bl-languages/de_CH.json

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         "November": "November",
         "December": "Dezember"
     },
-    "special-chars": {
+    "unicode-chars": {
         "ä": "ae",
         "ö": "oe",
         "ü": "ue"

bl-languages/de_DE.json

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         "November": "November",
         "December": "Dezember"
     },
-    "special-chars": {
+    "unicode-chars": {
         "ä": "ae",
         "ö": "oe",
         "ü": "ue",