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piskedi
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Posted 11/07/04 - 01:43 PM:	#1
I tried using the apache mod rewrite with category names and yes, it works very well.. But in my language there are different chahacters like "ç,þ,ý,ð"etc. The cat.names including these chars are displayed normally on the page, because I changed the charsets to win-1254. But the category links, in fact, still include the strange characters like"#&304;" etc.in themselves. So when I click on them, the category link opens a page like "wsn/"#&304", which ends as a dead link. How can I correct this? I want to use these characters, because when they are not used or replaced by other similar letters, the meaning of the word changes to something absurd. So this makes it impossible for people like me to use this nice feature

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Posted 11/09/04 - 12:32 AM:	#2
It should be doing only numerical rewriting for categories that contain such characters. That seems to me the best solution.
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Posted 11/09/04 - 11:26 AM:	#3
Yes,that's practical but this also means giving up using this feature because not all, but most of my catnames include these characters. Is this caused by the script or is it something about apache?Perhaps there's some point I should define my charsets to eliminate this error, but where? I'll be glad if you guide me about this.It's imminent for people from many countries to encounter the same problem too.

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Posted 11/11/04 - 01:04 PM:	#4
There have been some past threads where people indicated they change the htaccess file to accept more characters. Might or might not work, I don't know.
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Posted 11/13/04 - 10:06 AM:	#5
I found the referring posts about editing .htaccess, and I tried this: RewriteRule ^([-_/+A-Za-z0-9%çþðýÇÞÐI]+)$ index.php?action=displaycat&catname=$1 No, it didn't work..I think I will not be able to use this feature

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Posted 11/14/04 - 12:23 PM:	#6
Interesting.. RewriteRule ^([-_/+A-Za-z0-9%çþðýÇÞÐI]+)$ index.php?action=displaycat&catname=$1 does not work, but when I extract the "%",so it looks like RewriteRule ^([-_/+A-Za-z0-9çþðýÇÞÐI]+)$ index.php?action=displaycat&catname=$1 Yes, it works now..But even so, when the category is opened, its name in the address bar still shows strange characters.. I'll use it this way, I hope it does not cause problems in the future.

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