How to handle diacritics (accents) when rewriting 'pretty URLs'

Question

I rewrite URLs to include the title of user generated travelblogs.

I do this for both readability of URLs and SEO purposes.

 http://www.example.com/gall         


        

Answer 1

To me the third is most readable.

You could use a little dictionary e.g. ï -> i and ü -> ue to specify how you'd like various charcaters to be translated.