Posted by Jon Maz on 02/04/07 21:49

Hi,

I'm having problems with a RewriteRule that's applied to url's with the %
character in them, hope someone can help. The % character is a result of
url-encoding non-ASCII words, as in the example below:

1. the word "s�curit�" comes out of my db

2. I construct the following link, using the php urlencode function:
<a href="/search/s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9">s�curit�</a>

3. the url created should be interpreted by a RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^search/([a-zA-Z0-9-+%]+)$ /pages/search.php?word=$1 [QSA,L]

However the RewriteRule doesn't match on my url, and I see this in the
RewriteLog:

init rewrite engine with requested uri /search/sécurité

So it seems like some kind of decoding is going on so that the RewriteRule
never even sees the % character. I have set everything I can think of
(MySql SET NAMES, Apache AddDefaultCharset) to utf-8.

Any ideas?

TIA,

JON

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