PHP URL encoding special characters fails [duplicate]

Question

I moved my website to a new host. It has links (both internal and external from other websites I don't manage) with accents in the URLs which stopped working. Apparently the site used ISO-8859-1 and the new host UTF-8 I'm trying to solve this problem with PHP.

Example of the word "condición" in links looks like:

condici%F3n

That returns a 404 but if I write

condici%C3%B3n

OR

condición

on the address bar, it works fine.

So far I managed to print the right URL with the following code:

<?php
mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-1");
mb_http_output( "iso-8859-1" );
ob_start("mb_output_handler");
$value  = $_GET['termino'];
echo $value;
?>

https://example.com/page.php?termino=condici%F3n

Prints condición

The problem comes when I try to pass that word and redirect to an URL

<?php
mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-1");
mb_http_output( "iso-8859-1" );
ob_start("mb_output_handler");
$value  = $_GET['termino'];
header("Location: https://example.com/$value", true, 301);
?>

It switches back to:

condici%F3n

Why is this happening? How can I solve this?

"Why is this happening?" - because you still put just the value condición into your URL, and leave it up to the client to apply URL encoding ...? — C3roe
– C3roe, Commented Sep 6, 2022 at 14:40
But if I "put just the value condición into URL" it works. Only when the script does it fails — divinem
– divinem, Commented Sep 7, 2022 at 17:04

Web Marketing Solution Network · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-06 15:11:57Z

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<?php
   mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-1");
   mb_http_output( "iso-8859-1" );
   ob_start("mb_output_handler");
   $value  = urlencode($_GET['termino']);
   header("Location: https://example.com/$value", true, 301);
?>

And Now print with urldecode()

<?php
     echo urldecode($_GET['value'];
?>

answered Sep 6, 2022 at 15:11

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divinem Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer. Please note my goal is to fix links, I was printing as a way of debugging only.

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