Redirect to UTF-8 URL with ColdFusion

Question

I\'m working on a system that uses UTF-8 characters in folder names for URLs. There\'s been no problem in navigating to these URLs and everything works as expected - exc

Answer 1

I went to test this and didn't see the same result. But then I played with it a little more and tried using

Immediately, I was able to see the exact same issue that you did. It seems natural to include it in any page. This is very speculative, but CFAS may be doing some kind of URL encoding in the cflocation tag when used in conjunction with the pageencoding directive.

Assuming you have this in your code somewhere, try removing it for the redirect. If that works, then I would report this as a bug to Adobe.

Just FYI, I did this -- Output with encoding

geschäft/käfer/

And I got

geschäft/käfer/

But when I did this -- Relocation with encoding

It relocated me to

gesch%E4ft/k%E4fer/

And when I did this --Output without encoding

geschäft/käfer/

I got

geschäft/käfer/

But when I did this -- Relocation without encoding

Then I was relocated to

geschäft/käfer/