I’m an European guy and I use Inflector::Slug (from CakePhp) on my title articles

I have modified your slug function to have the same result as my CakePhp Urls (cake 1.2), in fact I didn’t got a correct result even with an english title :

imagine a french title:

“Le blog a été déplacé” ( means : “The blog has moved in” )

So in AS,

trace(Inflector.slug(”Le blog a été déplacé”,”-”));

=>Output: Le-blog-a-ete-deplace

static public function slug (word:String,replacement:String=”_”):String{

var aPattern:RegExp = /[àáåâ]/gi;
var ePattern:RegExp = /[èéêẽë]/gi;
var iPattern:RegExp = /[ìíî]/gi;
var oPattern:RegExp = /[òóôø]/gi;
var uPattern:RegExp = /[ùúůû]/gi;
var cPattern:RegExp = /[ç]/gi;
var nPattern:RegExp = /[ñ]/gi;
var aePattern:RegExp = /[äæ]/gi;
var oePattern:RegExp = /[ö]/gi;
var uePattern:RegExp = /[ü]/gi;
var AePattern:RegExp = /[Ä]/gi;
var UePattern:RegExp = /[Ü]/gi;
var OePattern:RegExp = /[Ö]/gi;
var ssPattern:RegExp = /[ß]/gi;
word = word.replace(aPattern, ‘a’);
word = word.replace(ePattern, ‘e’);
word = word.replace(iPattern, ‘i’);
word = word.replace(oPattern, ‘o’);
word = word.replace(uPattern, ‘u’);
word = word.replace(cPattern, ‘c’);
word = word.replace(nPattern, ‘n’);
word = word.replace(aePattern, ‘ae’);
word = word.replace(oePattern, ‘oe’);
word = word.replace(uePattern, ‘ue’);
word = word.replace(AePattern, ‘Ae’);
word = word.replace(UePattern, ‘Ue’);
word = word.replace(OePattern, ‘Oe’);
word = word.replace(ssPattern, ’ss’);

var startPattern:RegExp = /[^\w]/gi;
word = word.replace(startPattern, replacement);
return word;
}

This slug works like CakePhp

Maybe that’s a special case….