diff --git a/pathauto.inc b/pathauto.inc
index 9699aa0..1295ade 100644
--- a/pathauto.inc
+++ b/pathauto.inc
@@ -195,16 +195,19 @@ function pathauto_cleanstring($string, array $options = array()) {
   // Remove all HTML tags from the string.
   $output = strip_tags(decode_entities($string));
 
+  // Replace or drop punctuation based on user settings.
+  $output = strtr($output, $cache['punctuation']);
+
   // Optionally transliterate (by running through the Transliteration module)
   if ($cache['transliterate']) {
     // If the reduce strings to letters and numbers is enabled, don't bother
     // replacing unknown characters with a question mark. Use an empty string
     // instead.
     $output = transliteration_get($output, $cache['reduce_ascii'] ? '' : '?', $langcode);
-  }
 
-  // Replace or drop punctuation based on user settings
-  $output = strtr($output, $cache['punctuation']);
+    // Catch any transliterated punctuation.
+    $output = strtr($output, $cache['punctuation']);
+  }
 
   // Reduce strings to letters and numbers
   if ($cache['reduce_ascii']) {