No way to remove dashes from pattern in settings

For those waiting for this to be included in the module, you could also include this using their hook into a custom module:

function MODULE_pathauto_punctuation_chars_alter(array &$punctuation) {
  $punctuation['ndash'] = array(
    'value' => '–',
    'name' => t('En Dash'),
  );
  
  $punctuation['mdash'] = array(
    'value' => '—',
    'name' => t('Em Dash'),
  );

}

Also, in case anyone has the same issue I had, make sure your text editor is using UTF-8 encoding.
Notepad++ defaults to ANSI and it doesn't save the characters correctly.

@jaydee1818, your patch working fine for me, so I am changing status of the issue.

However, for my task I will use hint from @Toby Wild to define even more characters. Those are loved by endusers in one project. So my hook looks like

  $punctuation['ndash'] = array(
    'value' => '–',
    'name' => t('En Dash'),
  );
  $punctuation['mdash'] = array(
    'value' => '—',
    'name' => t('Em Dash'),
  );
  $punctuation['single_quota_open'] = array(
    'value' => '‘',
    'name' => t('Quotation Open'),
  );
  $punctuation['single_quota_close'] = array(
    'value' => '’',
    'name' => t('Quotation Close'),
  );
  $punctuation['double_quota_open'] = array(
    'value' => '“',
    'name' => t('Double Quotation Open'),
  );
  $punctuation['double_quota_close'] = array(
    'value' => '”',
    'name' => t('Double Quotation Close'),
  );

Thanks to both of you!

Fantastic, can't wait to see this released.

Content authors love their special characters in page titles even though I keep telling them not to.

Hi,

This is causing issues (in particular with the Rate module) on a clients site.

Is this change likely to be included in a stable release any time soon?

Thanks

Thanks, jaydee1818. The patch appears to be working great for me.

An alternative to not using this patch is using the Transliteration module then and turning on "Transliterate prior to creating alias" in /admin/config/search/path/settings and updating aliases for affect nodes has removed the em/en-dashes in titles along with apostrophe's and other unwanted characters.

whthat's tip is helpful for the D8 version of this module, but the "Transliterate prior to creating alias" option is not available in the D7 settings.

Just update the previous comment, you need the Transliteration module for that option in D7.