Router URLs: hyphens instead of underscores

Yes, I know this issue has been raised in the past (a long while ago),
but there's been no satisfying answer yet.

Basically, best SEO practices say that we should be using hyphens
instead of underscores in our URLs, since search engines such as
Google have an easier time parsing "my-page", rather than "my_page",
as two separate words (and thus a distinct search term). Is it time
for Cake to look at allowing hyphens instead of underscores in URLs?

Before anyone says "OMG you can just do this" (as Nate suggested at
http://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1727 ):

$_GET['url'] = str_replace("-", "_", $_GET['url']);

that's fine for parsing incoming URLs, but it doesn't even come close
to providing a solution since links generated by the Cake router (i.e.
via the HtmlHelper etc.) use underscores instead of hyphens, and
that's that. So for those of us who want to use hyphens instead of
dashes, we need to enter manual URLs instead of using Cake's routing
capabilities. So, sure, we can translate incoming links, but we can't
generate the proper links in the first place.

Has anyone thought of a solution? Is the Cake team contemplating
adding support for multiple URL separators? Any home brew hacks out
there?

- Jamie
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