From 31a57cf0dd19af817a2622ee83193b84f99456f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baris Soner Usakli <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:36:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] closes #885

---
 public/src/utils.js | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/public/src/utils.js b/public/src/utils.js
index e7916ef5f6..988253f3c1 100644
--- a/public/src/utils.js
+++ b/public/src/utils.js
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 		collapseWhitespace : /\s+/g,
 		collapseDash : /-+/g,
 		trimTrailingDash : /-$/g,
+		trimLeadingDash : /^-/g,
 		isLatin : /^[\w]+$/,
 
 		//http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@
 			str = str.replace(utils.collapseWhitespace, '-')
 			str = str.replace(utils.collapseDash, '-');
 			str = str.replace(utils.trimTrailingDash, '');
+			str = str.replace(utils.trimLeadingDash, '');
 			return str;
 		},