BUG when creating Attributes with Scandinavian letters

Solution is provided in this message of this possible Bug. Also posted at github

Some wierd stuff happend when saving new Attributes and tracked it down as follow:

When creating new Attribute with a non english letter as the first char like : ?nskas ?ngervecka

No slug is created.

It should return : onskas-angervecka

The problem.

Attribute names seems are created outside WP and uses :

woocommerce_sanitize_taxonomy_name()

found in : woocommerce-admin-attributes.php and it seems to return an empty string when string starts with “?”. No Hooks or filters are provided to pre-filter this.

Solution
In woocommerce-admin-attributes.php Line 51 I wrapped the string to be filtered with:

sanitize_title_with_dashes($_POST['attribute_name'], '', 'save')

And Line 59:

sanitize_title($attribute_label, '', 'save')

The complete lines are provided at the end of this message.

About my fix
sanitize_title() is a WP cleanup for urls, and actually not a pretty title thing. Check out the codex. Maybe there is a better filter to use.

The Attribute label is not passing WPs pre_insert_term filter, like cats and tags (And attribute values (!)) and if I understand right are Woo attribute names “Virtual” taxonomies. So a FILTER HOOK of names/labels would be nice!

I created one myself (when crashing the core file anyway) to clean the Labels like I do with Category names in my theme.

function ua_woocommerce_sanitize_taxonomy_label( $taxonomy )

However, Here is the fix (ends with // QQ) in context:

// Grab the submitted data
		$attribute_label   = ( isset( $_POST['attribute_label'] ) )   ? (string) stripslashes( $_POST['attribute_label'] ) : '';
		$attribute_name    = ( isset( $_POST['attribute_name'] ) )    ? woocommerce_sanitize_taxonomy_name( stripslashes( (string) sanitize_title_with_dashes($_POST['attribute_name'], '', 'save') ) ) : ''; // QQ
		$attribute_type    = ( isset( $_POST['attribute_type'] ) )    ? (string) stripslashes( $_POST['attribute_type'] ) : '';
		$attribute_orderby = ( isset( $_POST['attribute_orderby'] ) ) ? (string) stripslashes( $_POST['attribute_orderby'] ) : '';

		// Auto-generate the label or slug if only one of both was provided
		if ( ! $attribute_label ) {
			$attribute_label = ucwords( $attribute_name );
		} elseif ( ! $attribute_name ) {
			$attribute_name = woocommerce_sanitize_taxonomy_name( stripslashes( sanitize_title($attribute_label, '', 'save') ) ); // QQ
		}

/ Swedish developer

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