Title: % in url causing issues
Last modified: December 18, 2018

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# % in url causing issues

 *  Resolved [luxinterior](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luxinterior/)
 * (@luxinterior)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/in-url-causing-issues/)
 * I have a post with a percentage sign in the url and it’s causing a database error.
 * The link is not a Pretty Link but from the error message, it looks like it’s 
   related to PL.
 * The links is…
 * [https://xxx.com/business/day-trade-stocks-with-6-best-trading-strategies90%accurate/](https://xxx.com/business/day-trade-stocks-with-6-best-trading-strategies90%accurate/)
 * and the error is…
 * [18-Dec-2018 09:38:52 UTC] WordPress database error Illegal mix of collations(
   utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8mb4_unicode_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation ‘=’
   for query SELECT * FROM wpug_prli_links WHERE slug=’business/day-trade-stocks-
   with-6-best-trading-strategies90¬curate’ made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’),
   require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-
   settings.php’), do_action(‘plugins_loaded’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters,
   PrliAppController->redirect, PrliLink->is_pretty_link, PrliLink->is_pretty_link_slug,
   PrliLink->getOneFromSlug
 * Do you have any ideas?
 * Lux

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/in-url-causing-issues/)
 * Status: resolved