Urls with special characters like apostrophe and question mark

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Urls with special characters like apostrophe and question mark - wolfgang1983 - 02-27-2017

On my url link if the user click on a like some times the person who post question may use apostrophe

Code:
http://project.com/questions/2/What's-you-all-on-the-forum-doing?

And answer link

Code:
http://project.com/questions/2/What's-you-all-on-the-forum-doing?/42/#42

I have tried using urlencode()

PHP Code:
anchor('questions/' . $question['question_id'] .'/'. str_replace(' ', '-', $question['title']), character_limiter($question['title'], 15), array('target' => '_blank')) 

But now the url outputs

PHP Code:
http://project.com/questions/2/What%27s+you+all+on+the+forum+doing%3F 

How can I still make sure when user has apostrophe, question marks in link title that the url will still work and not throw The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

RE: Urls with special characters like apostrophe and question mark - wolfgang1983 - 02-28-2017

After doing some more reading through the helpers in url helper I think

url_title() is best suited for my problem https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html#url_title

Now question title url

Code:
http://project.com/questions/2/whats-you-all-on-the-forum-doing

And answer url

Code:
http://project.com/questions/2/whats-you-all-on-the-forum-doing/2/#2

Any other suggestions let me know cheers