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LAMP: retrieving international (i.e. chinese) characters from an URL

I am trying to retrieve a string of characters from an URL, i.e.:

http://www.domain.com/mystring

using

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

This works pretty well with ASCII characters, but doesn't with international characters such as chinese, etc as the string gets escaped i.e.

テスト

becomes

/%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

Any help on how to address that would be much appreciated.

Solution

  • I found this solution :

    urldecode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])