It seems that there is bug (or feature?) in dirify preventing from correct archiving entries with non-ASCII titles. When title of a post is non-ASCII, dirify removes all non-ASCII characters and replaces blanks with underscores. If post title consists of just one non-ASCII word, the result is empty string, and file name will look like .html.

In versions prior to 3.2 it had different behaviour, replacing non_ASCII characters with nnnn which works most of time, although name collisions were also possible.

Could somebody suggest workaround. I tried setting Basename manually on the Entry screen, but it didn't work. Meaning that new archive file was not published after rebuilding the site. Maybe another bug?

Currently, even in 3.3 beta, dirify function only works with latin and those languages MT has been officially translated to (German, Japanese, etc).
I had similar issues (UTF-8 Greek titles) with MT3.2. The only solution was to modify util.pm source, adding translation table for Greek in function xliterate_utf8. Not an easy task for regular users though.

I wonder why Sixapart did not implement a full UTF-8 dirify table...


Hmm, it works for me.