Allow urlencoded string in URI

[eluser]Maxximus[/eluser]
Why would you want to do that? It will kill your SEO. Nobody will ever type that in a searchengine. Nor a plus sign.

I would say this works out best for SEO:

Code:

music/artist/sigur-rós.html

Since your users will use an ó and not o in the 'rós' part. Since u are using UTF-8 there is no reason to use urlencoding I think.

You will probably do a db lookup with the above string. In my app I replace all non-ASCII chars with a question mark, that way it will also find 'sigur ros' (but 'sigur rus' too).

I make sure my db search is in lower case too, so it will make no difference if someone is using uppercase/lowercase mix.