IIRF rewriteRule with special chars not working

Question

I have following link:

http://www.svensonart.com/index.php/nl/artists/

I want to remove the index.php with IIRF, wich is no problem i use this rule:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [I,L,QSA]

But when I have an URI with special charachters é è ö ,.. the rewriterule is not working. So if I want to rewrite this url: http://www.svensonart.com/index.php/nl/artists/view/Lindstr%C3%B6m_Bengt

its not working.

Anybody any idea's why?

Answer 1

There isn't a rewrite flag for preventing a regular expression grouping from getting decoded, but there's an IIRF directive called UrlDecoding which you can try in your INI file:

UrlDecoding Off