Accents, URLs and Firefox

Question

I have problems, and I was wondering if any of you could help me.

I have my site and DB installed in utf8. I have a problem, when I gain accents in the query strings section ã turns into % E3 , but if I use links or forms on the page, it gives % C3% A3 in the URL.

What can I do?

EDIT: Let me clarify this a bit:

I am trying to use accented characters in my urls (query strings), but it is not easy for me to get this to work in multiple browsers. Some browsers, such as Firefox and IE, output a variable encoded string depending on whether I use a form on the page or type an accented character in the address bar. As I said in my original question, ã entered into the form turns into % C3% A3 in the URL, but if I type ã in the address bar of the browser it changes to % E3 in the URL.

This complicates things for me, because if I get % E3 , then in php / html I get an unknown character (this is a question mark with a diamond, right?)

Hope this helps - let me know.

Answer 1

ã When entered into the form, it turns into% C3% A3 in the URL

It depends on the encoding of the form, which is usually taken from the encoding of the page containing the form. %C3%A9is the correct form of UTF-8 with URL encoding ã.

if I type ã in the address bar, the browser will change this to% E3 in the URL.

It depends on the browser. When you put non-ASCII characters in the URL in the location bar:

http://www.example.com/test.p/café?café

WebKit browsers encode them as UTF-8:

http://www.example.com/test.p/caf%C3%A9?caf%C3%A9

IMO , IRI. IE Opera , . , Western European Windows ( 1252) :

http://www.example.com/test.p/caf%C3%A9?caf%E9

, , IE Opera ?. Firefox , UTF-8 .

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