Port Transliteration to Drupal 8

Just dumping some info on transliteration status in core:
#567832: Transliteration in core
#1842718: Use new Transliteration functionality in core for machine names

So a service is available (see change record), but we need to make it usable for file names for example.

Pathauto won't probably need a dependency over Transliteration module anymore https://github.com/md-systems/pathauto/blob/abd25b738c3a095a2a1ec1f1784e...

Standardized the title and tag. (I think)

#1 is correct, the main functionality is in core but we still need to do file name integration in contrib, at least until 8.1.x when new features like this will be accepted again.

Here's my first attempt at a Drupal 8 port, ready for reviewing. The module leverages the transliteration service from core. File transliteration for uploaded files is implemented, but retroactive transliteration and search form integration is still missing. It will come in a next patch. The code contains a few TODOs and it needs to be cleaned up a bit.

Thanks to amateescu for the initial guidance.

PS: Please be patient as this is my first attempt at porting and patching a module.

Thanks all for your contributions :)

We are happy to contribute testing patch, quality assurance, documentation, and agile project management services if needed

Any additional volunteers interested to join to effort to port Transliteration module from Drupal 7 to 8?

Related pages

• Drupal 8.0.0 will be released on November 19, 2015
• News about "Porting modules and themes to Drupal 8 "
• "Drupal Module Upgrader" module. Which can do some of the port automatically for you, covering many API hooks.
• Documentation about "Converting 7.x modules to 8.x"

About file names, there's https://github.com/MichelleCox/filefield_paths
and core issue

Test with filefield_paths beta1 of Drupal8, it does not work at first.
At last it works, it transliterate file name after you save your node. if it transliterate file name before save the node, it will be perfect.

#4 patch does not work also.

FYI about #6, the FFP maintainer decided to just ignore our working D8 version and do his own thing so that link is no longer relevant.

I'm not module maintainer but I think it's appropriate to close this because there's a core issue to get filename transliteration into core: #2492171: Provide options to sanitize filenames (transliterate, lowercase, replace whitespace, etc) and it seems close to ready.

Yup, we can close this one :)

See also https://www.drupal.org/project/transliterate_filenames