Special Characters break Generated URLs

Question

I have an automated process which generates urls from the title of venue.

I then use the following line to within my .htaccess to get the url to redirect to the correct path

RewriteRule ^recipes/([\w-]+)/(\d+)$  ./recipes_news.php?i=$2 [L,QSA]

a typical URL looks like the link below

www.site.com/recipes/red-curry-chicken/123

Where the last part of the url is the id used to find the actual recipe information.

For some reason unknown to me, anytime a special character such as "ā" occurs, it breaks the url.

Is there something I am missing in the .htaccess code to capture special chacters?

Thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '13 at 08:03

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Try changing your regex pattern to:

RewriteRule ^recipes/([^/]+)/(\d+)$  ./recipes_news.php?i=$2 [L,QSA]

answered Jun 13 '13 at 08:03

Jon Lin

I will test this today. Thanks for the contribution – Jms Bnd Jun 13 '13 at 09:46
does that mean the first section will capture any character format? – Jms Bnd Jun 13 '13 at 10:17
@JmsBnd Yes, anything exception for a `/` – Jon Lin Jun 13 '13 at 16:12

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