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I'm trying to get a URL that has a german accent in it (could also be a french accent) - bücher (books), to redirect to a non-accented URL. However, when I try the following redirect in my .htaccess file, I can't get it to work (ie. nothing happens).
RewriteRule ^bücher$ http://example.com/bucher$1 [R=301,L]
Any ideas how to implement this redirect correctly - in other words, how to get htaccess to recognize my character accent?
While we don't know of a way to represent accented characters in htaccess, you can use a universal character match to cover the accented character as follows:
redirectMatch 301 ^/b.+cher http://example.com/bucher
Awesome - that did it. I've been searching ages for this, inserting the names of different languages to try and find a discussion on htaccess handling URLs with accented characters. Your redirectMatch method did the trick - thanks!
