Turn ampersand (&) into word equivalents, e.g. "and" about slugify HOT 5 CLOSED

I have to say nay. I think this is too language specific, I guess it would complicate things too much for an edge case. This is tied really closely to the language used for the string, much more than the rest of the transliterations rules. In most systems there will be more than one languages used. At least every system which is in some other language than English will have English words and phrases.

For example, a German blog on music could have a title like Angus & Julia Stone haben ein neues Album veröffentlicht, which would become angus-und-julia-stone-haben-ein-neues-album-veroeffentlicht, which is wrong because their band name should be transliterated to angus-and-julia-stone. It gets even more complicated if the German title contains another ampersand, e.g. in "Angus & Julia Stone haben ein neues Album & Video veröffentlicht in which case the first & should become and and the second & should become und.

To be honest, I also don't want to maintain a list of translations, the transliterations are headache enough. Especially when I guess that there are probably languages with special cases with multiple words for and.

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I guess the better approach would be to create a separate library with this as special purpose. You could than apply the ampersand translator and Slugify in sequence if you want to see this behaviour in your stem.

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Very good points. 👍

Additional rules have to be taken into account. Italian is usually excellent for testing linguistic rules and exceptions.

Perhaps I'll look into creating such a library myself. 😄

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If you do create a library drop me a line and I include a link in the readme, in case other users need something like this.

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Sure thing.

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