I am having a problem with my URL Shorthands in my .htaccess.
Namely, everything works fine with this (now old) code...
# URL ShortCut Maker.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.) ?open=encyclopedia&letter=$1&term=%1 [B,L,NC]
It shows URL correctly as example.com/Modesty (it shows the page as if the URL would be /?open=encyclopedia&letter=m&term=modesty), but the problem occurs when I enter:
example.com/Šanti, or
example.com/Đin, or
example.com/Žal,
example.com/Čakra, or
example.com/Ćof...
...if I enter any of these URLs - it shows the page as if I would enter:
?open=encyclopedia and not as
?open=encyclopedia&letter=Š&term=Šanti
EDIT: Non-English letters in question/problem.
Any solution to this?
You can change your existing rule with rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# executes repeatedly as long as there are more than 1 spaces in URI
RewriteRule "^(\S*)\s+(\S* .*)$" $1+$2 [N,NE]
# executes when there is exactly 1 space in URI
RewriteRule "^(\S*)\s(\S*)$" $1+$2 [L,R=302,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Z](?:[^\x00-\x7F]+|[A-Z])?).*$ ?open=encyclopedia&letter=$1&term=$0 [B,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^\x00-\x7F]+).*$ ?open=encyclopedia&letter=$1&term=$0 [B,L,QSA]
Negated character class [^\x00-\x7F] matches any character outside ASCII range.