So I’m relatively new to RapidWeaver Elements, but I’m really liking it. But I’ve got a few issues, and this is one:
Your menu name items subsequently become the directory names (and hence url pointers) for all of your main subdirectories, which in and of itself should be fine. However, if you happen to want to display a word as a part of your menu that has accent marks, since these things are not commonly used in web URLs, it seems that Elements strips out the accents and replaces it with either nothing or hyphens. So, for instance, in my case, the word Résumé, which if you’re being particular, has two accent marks, as you can see, one over each E. I can’t use that name and have that subdirectory be called resume. Instead, it renames it to R-sum. Now, if I’m giving somebody a link to my Résumé page on my website, telling them to go to my-site.whatever/r-sum is a little absurd.
Is there potentially a way to decouple this behavior in a useful way or build something into Elements so that when it does translate the accent marks, it just reverses it to the basic version of that letter without accent marks instead of either removing the characters or replacing them with a hyphen? This would be awesome. I’m not a fan of having my Résumé page be called Resume, because I’m not resuming anything.
I’m not sure if this is a known issue. I’m also not sure how many people add accent marks to their menu items, so it may not have ever come up as an issue. So, hopefully someone can help.
Thanks!
Glen