Bit of a code dump but what the hey it will have to do.
In wordpress we have a wonderful set of functions that takes your title and converts it to a URL friendly version in the slug or permalink area. This also handles foreign characters converting them to their standard ascii equivalent.

These resets were a mix of my own stuff, YUI and various others I mashed in during development Resets, the necessary evil Some people will say that you don’t really need a reset, and that it creates extra work; unfortunately this is only true in the case of tech-sites and small sites that don’t need … Read on Squire

Taken from http://nightjack.wordpress.com/ before Sir David Eady QC merrily allowed the removal of anonymity privileged to the the author, losing him his blog and very nearly his job. That’s Sir David Eady of Tenterden, Kent who values anonymity up to the point where it exposes legal incompetence. Source: NightJack In these days of us increasingly … Read on Squire

Regardless of whether or not your a fan of IE, bits of functionality in windows will make you use it, whether it be update or irritating banking sites that insist on making you use a specific browser; so do yourself a favour and download it anyway… if your on a mac you can just go … Read on Squire

UNITE! Thousands of half arsed under-researched opinion mongering by thousands of people that don't matter, won’t make scratch difference.