Umlauts in htaccess redirects

Question

The following htaccess rule doesn't work because of the umlauts.

Redirect 301 /xyz/händedruck.html  /new/händedruck.html

How can this redirect be modified so that it works?

Answer 1

Try encoded URL instead: /xyz/h%C3%A4ndedruck.html

To get this string in PHP you can use the urlencode function.

There are also many websites that can do urlencoding for you. For example: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/