I moved my website to a new host. It has links (both internal and external from other websites I don't manage) with accents in the URLs which stopped working. Apparently the site used ISO-8859-1 and the new host UTF-8 I'm trying to solve this problem with PHP.
Example of the word "condición" in links looks like:
condici%F3n
That returns a 404 but if I write
condici%C3%B3n
OR
condición
on the address bar, it works fine.
So far I managed to print the right URL with the following code:
<?php
mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-1");
mb_http_output( "iso-8859-1" );
ob_start("mb_output_handler");
$value = $_GET['termino'];
echo $value;
?>
https://example.com/page.php?termino=condici%F3n
- Prints condición
The problem comes when I try to pass that word and redirect to an URL
<?php
mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-1");
mb_http_output( "iso-8859-1" );
ob_start("mb_output_handler");
$value = $_GET['termino'];
header("Location: https://example.com/$value", true, 301);
?>
It switches back to:
condici%F3n
Why is this happening? How can I solve this?