Title: Encoding issue in URLs
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Encoding issue in URLs

 *  [agermanucf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agermanucf/)
 * (@agermanucf)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-in-urls/)
 * I am experiencing issues with my URLs, and I am not sure if it is a result of
   a plugin or something else.
 * In the Address Bar, the url looks normal, like this: [http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/meniscus-surgery/know-your-options-for-a-meniscus-tear/](http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/meniscus-surgery/know-your-options-for-a-meniscus-tear/)
 * But when I copy and paste the URL somewhere, it is showing as this: [http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/meniscus-surgery/kn%D0%BEw-y%D0%BEur-options-f%D0%BEr-%D0%B0-meniscus-tear/](http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/meniscus-surgery/kn%D0%BEw-y%D0%BEur-options-f%D0%BEr-%D0%B0-meniscus-tear/)
 * This was not happening a few days ago before I installed the “view all posts”
   plugin. I have since uninstalled and deleted the plugin but still experiencing
   this. On the plugin page it says there might be a conflict with Yoast SEO (which
   I use). Maybe this is related? But as I mentioned, I have removed the plugin 
   and checked all of the settings and things look ok. The plugin I used is located
   here [http://wordpress.org/plugins/view-all-posts-pages/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/view-all-posts-pages/)
 * The funny thing is this is not happening for all of the Posts on the site (2 
   are totally fine). I set up an All Posts page in order to view them as a directory
   [http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/posts/](http://www.microfracturesurgery.net/posts/)
 * From looking at the text in the wrong URLs, it seems that letters are being replaced
   with these characters. Here are all of them:
    • A = %D0%B0 and %d0%b0 • E = %
   D0%B5 • I = %d1%96 • O = %d0%be • S = d1%95 • Y = %d1%83
 * From some serious googling, I have found that this is a character encoding issue.
   But I have no clue why it is happening, and/or how to fix it.
 * I compared the two good posts with the rest of the bad posts, and could not see
   any similarities or anything that sticks out. (i.e. categories, etc)
 * Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 * Thanks
    Andy
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## Tags

 * [character encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-encoding/)
 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

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 * Last reply from: [agermanucf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agermanucf/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-in-urls/)
 * Status: not resolved