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Apostrophe in user name

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    Apostrophe in user name

    Two different users:

    Smokin'
    Smokin

    Click on either user profile and you get the profile for Smokin. You cannot pull up the profile for Smokin'. This is using members/[user_name].html

    Its too late for me to change to the rewrite method that includes the member id, because Google has already spidered about 150,000 user profiles (Google sucks up about 90,000 - 100,000 pages per day on our site, before and after VBSeo).

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    You can either set VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS in your config_vbseo.php file to 1 to cause it to use the decimal values of special characters, or you can change your member profile rewrite url to include the userid.

    Either of those should correct the issue. I prefer adding the userid to the URL format, because there are some cases where the other way won't work. Joe and -Joe- for example, since -'s are used as URL delimeters and will be stripped from the name, causing them to be the same.

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