how to allow special character in the url

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how to allow special character in the url - El Forum - 05-29-2012

[eluser]Angel Lay[/eluser]
When i use special characters, the uri submitted is not allowed error message occurs.

Code:
special characters: á,ó,é and so on

How can i solve it?

Thanks

how to allow special character in the url - El Forum - 05-29-2012

[eluser]Sanjay Sarvaiya[/eluser]
You have to change allowed URI Characters in config.php file.
add your spacial Characters here.

Code:
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-';

how to allow special character in the url - El Forum - 05-29-2012

[eluser]Angel Lay[/eluser]
Yes, i have tried this one. The words like

Code:
+/;>

are okay.
But how can i change this kinds of special character

Code:
á,ó,é,Â and so on

?
there may be a lot of ASCII characters.

how to allow special character in the url - El Forum - 05-29-2012

[eluser]Pedro Luz[/eluser]
you shouldn't use characters with accents in urls.

try use convert_accented_characters();

take a look at http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/text_helper.html